Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun If you zoom out to a distant vantage point of human history, you can see the arc of the universe bending toward a certain kind of justice. If we secure a future for humanity, historians will look back on these times and identify them as an era in which ordinary…
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Safety, Dignity, Living Wages, a Healthy Planet – Is This Too Much To Ask?
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Looking around the globe in this week’s Nonviolence News, it’s evident that people are gripped in “struggles of survival”. The demands are sensible, reasonable: people want safety from brutal repression, they want wages that pay the bills, and they want a planet they can live on that won’t poison them…
Argentines Defend Indigenous Rights, Hotel Workers Flex Muscles & World’s Biggest Human Peace Sign
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Argentines faced police repression that injured hundreds as they protested their governor’s overhaul of the provincial constitution. Though they have succeeded in getting the discriminatory clauses that undermined Indigenous Rights dropped, many continue to push to get the entire document subject to review by tribal groups – as is required…
Pasta Protests, Teens Sleuths, Robin Hoods & Koreans Against 14-hr Workdays
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun People are building solutions that work. Like a community-owned microgrid in Puerto Rico. You may recall that Puerto Rico has held many mass protests over the greed-driven power outages that cripple the island. Building a locally-owned renewable power grid is a matter of daily survival. It’s also a form of…
Youth vs. Apocalypse, Spray-Painted Private Jet, Nonviolent Protection & PRIDE Under Siege
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun June is PRIDE month and amidst an onslaught of anti-trans bills, homophobic book bans, and other anti-LGBTQ activities, these marches, rallies, and events showing love to LGBTQ+ individuals and culture are much needed. Unfortunately, many are facing counterprotests from homophobes and anti-trans factions, with some escalating into attacks and assaults….
Immigrant Work Stoppages, Sea Turtle Rights, India’s Female Wrestlers
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News contains a wonderful collection of success stories. You’ll find a heartening number of nonviolent solutions being implemented around the world. These practices and programs restore ecosystems, prevent systemic violence (like childhood poverty), and hold society accountable for some of its harmful behaviors. These include: acknowledging sea…
Mexico Objects To Tourist Train, Sri Lankan Tea Pickers Strike, & Trevi Fountain Turned Black
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News contains many successes worth celebrating. Oakland teachers have returned to work after voting on a contract that includes living wages, equitable wages, and expanded special education services. In the wake of tragedy, Serbians have handed over an impressive number of guns to try to prevent future…
Big Enough? Plus: Greek Ferries Halt, Italians Protest Slashes & Colombia’s Aerial Dances
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Sometimes, you can hear the cries of the people echoing like rolling thunder from one country to the next. Across the globe, human beings use nonviolent action to lift up common dreams and shared senses of outrage over injustices. Italian unions mobilized 40,000 people to protest the government plan to…
Serbia Against Violence, Aboveground Migrant Networks, Mexico’s Mother’s Day Protest For the Disappeared
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In Serbia, tens of thousands of people poured into the streets in the wake of the nation’s first mass shootings. Protesters are demanding resignations of officials, revocation of licenses for violence-promoting state media channels, gun reform and disarmament, and much more. The same weekend, in a heart-wrenching reminder of how…
Palestine’s Half-Day Strike, May Day Rallies, Canada’s Fed Workers Strike Deal
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun From the global labor movement’s resurgence to interesting strategies in a wide range of campaigns, Nonviolence News offers a lot to mull on this week. Latvian teachers held an intense 3-day strike that led to higher wages. New York took thousands of guns off the streets with a buyback program….