Image: Remix by Nonviolence News from photo by Pablo Valerio on Pixabay Editor’s Note by Rivera Sun Nonviolence offers an almost inexhaustible toolbox of versatile tactics. It makes nonviolent action versatile, creative, surprising, and wildly adaptable to a diversity of situations. At the same time, it can be immensely articulate in expressing people’s concerns, hopes,…
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#HandsOff Rallies Millions, Athens Strike Halts City & Nepalese Resist Cable Cars
Image: Remix by Nonviolence News from Donna B Nichols and StockSnap on Pixabay. Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun We all need to celebrate the wins – it is the antidote to the setbacks. After the formal impeachment of the president, South Koreans are holding massive celebrations to honor what their mass protest movement achieved in…
South Korea Ousts Impeached President, ‘Unelected Slide’ At Tesla Takedown, Canadian Economic Defiance, Millions Protest In Yemen & Turkey
Image: Remix by Nonviolence News from photos by Franz P. Sauerteig and UnratedStudio on Pixabay Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Let’s start by looking around the world. South Koreans are celebrating after the Constitutional Court officially removed President Yoon from office for attempting to declare martial law in a power grab. Millions of people used…
Trillionaires For Trump Mock-tivism, Mexico City Trolly Workers Strike & 100Ks Protest Racism In France and Netherlands
Get ready for a glimpse of nonviolence in action around the world! This week’s Nonviolence News shows that humanity is not giving in to authoritarians, corruption, racism, war, and planetary destruction. It’s a powerful glimpse of our times – and heartening. By remembering that we are neither alone nor unique, we catch courage and learn a lot from the struggles … their setbacks and their successes.
Trump Tower Sit-In, Giant Sandwriting, Protests Doubled, and Resisting Authoritarians in Serbia, Hungary, Turkey, United States & Beyond
Image: Remix from a photo by David Geitgey Sierralupe. Used with permission. Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun It’s been an astonishing week. In Serbia, Hungary, Turkey, Argentina and the United States, immense protests against authoritarians, corruption, privatization, and other economic issues are taking place. In Serbia, the anti-corruption movement mobilized 100,000 people to converge on…
A Record-Breaking Protest, Cracks In the Regime & Boycott Central
Image: Remix by Nonviolence News from a photo of a march in Brazil by John Potter on Pixabay Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Did you know that the largest act of civil disobedience in US history just occurred? Few people have put it together yet, but here’s what happened: over a million federal workers just…
No Kings, Tesla Take Down, Save Our Services
Image: Remix by Nonviolence News from photo by Patricio Hurtado on Pixabay Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Let’s start with a round of good news: Munich, Germany, has banned military ads in public spaces in the city, including on buses, subways, and billboards. Denver, Colorado, suburbs are pushing back against oil and gas wells and…
Moon Shots, Google Maps, Disguised Resistance & Surging Protests
Image by Nonviolence News with background from Amine M’siouri on Pexels Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun As you might expect, we have a lot of nonviolent action to report around the US’ political crisis. So, let’s start with celebrating something entirely different: a hard won, little-known success in Canada. A community-based organizing effort has prevented an…
Wins Show Trump Is Not Invincible, 120 Strikes on A Day Without Immigrants & 44 DOGE Protests In US Cities
Trump is not invincible. As he and Musk moved like a wrecking ball through the US federal government, we’re also seeing rising resistance … and wracking up some wins. Federal judges blocked (at least temporarily) the federal funding freeze, DOGE from altering US Treasury data, attacks on birthright citizenship, orders to move trans women prisoners to men’s wards, and Trump/Musk’s buyout deal deadline for federal workers. Trump was forced to back off his extreme tariffs and settle for minor concessions during a 30-day pause. Know Your Rights trainings are making it ‘very difficult’ for ICE to arrest migrants, according to the ‘Border Czar’. Locals in Tulare, CA, prevented Trump’s lies from causing a literal flood of emergency water that would have done nothing to stop the Palisades Fires anyway.
From Dread to Defiance: US Resistance Is Rising … And It’s Working
In the United States, this week has seen both authoritarian moves from the Trump/Vance Administration … and a heartening surge of resistance. In dramatic ways, people are shifting from the paralyzed dread to outraged defiance. And defiance is working.