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7K Nurses Strike, Brazil Defends Democracy & The Arc of the Universe

Posted on January 14, 2023January 14, 2023

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. The United States commemorates his life and legacy with a federal holiday. Over the weekend, people across the nation are holding marches, rallies, teach-ins, talks for racial justice and nonviolence. Dr. King is part of a long lineage of…

Pakistani Workers Want Safety, BLM Protests For UK Rapper, South Koreans Push For Fair Medicine

Posted on September 17, 2022September 17, 2022

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The United Kingdom is asking whose lives matter after the police killed an unarmed Black rapper. When protest organizers were urged to cancel the demonstrations due to the queen’s death, they refused. They felt the greater insensitivity was asking them to cancel a protest over a Black man’s murder for…

Sip-ins for Starbucks Unions, Indonesia Protests Fuel Prices & the Underwater Boulder Wall

Posted on September 9, 2022September 9, 2022

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In this week’s Nonviolence News, thousands of Indonesians are protesting high fuel prices. Puerto Ricans are flooding the streets in objection to power outages from the partially privatized electric utility. XR UK superglued themselves to the floor of parliament for climate action. Iranian women’s rights activists are facing renewed attacks…

Peace In Ukraine, Resisting Invasion, Stopping Atlanta’s Cop City

Posted on February 26, 2022February 26, 2022

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Like many of you, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia is on my mind. I’ve been getting a lot of requests for “nonviolent strategies” that could be (or are being) used in Ukraine. I’m keeping my eyes and ears open, but I think a key struggle to lift up at…

South African Engineers Strike, Garden Blockade Targets Coal Plant, Brazil Demands Impeachment

Posted on October 9, 2021October 9, 2021

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The repercussions of the pandemic lockdowns are still echoing in shockwaves through the global labor movement. Workers flexed their power during the early stages of the pandemic, walking out en masse for stronger health and safety protocols, going on strike for hazard pay, calling-in-sick to stop hasty reopenings, and much…

Defying Injustice: Guatemalans Vs. Corruption & Olympic Women Vs. Sexist Dress Codes

Posted on July 31, 2021July 31, 2021

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun These are tumultuous times. And that’s a good thing. People around the world are defying injustice-as-usual. Guatemalans took to the streets after the president fired a top anti-corruption official for looking into the president’s wrongdoings. The Olympics are – yet again – a platform for unexpected protests, from Simone Biles…

300 Victories in 2020, Peru’s Farmer Protests, & India’s Record-Breaking Strike

Posted on December 11, 2020December 12, 2020

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun When I read that India’s farmers led a record-breaking, 250 million person strike against corporate agriculture laws, I cheered. Then I found out that Peru’s farmers rose up against a similar farmworker-abusing law and got it repealed. Double cheers! I come from a farming family. When I train people in…

Got Dictators? Never Fear, Nonviolence Is Here

Posted on July 25, 2020July 27, 2020

Editor’s Note: The United States is going through some growing pains.  (Understatement of the year.) With secret police snatching protesters off the street, journalists being arrested for doing their jobs, and the Portland mayor being simultaneously tear gassed by federal agents and booed by his constituency (for doing the same thing to the protesters the…

Strikes Grow Bigger, Bolder, Broader

Posted on May 10, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Rent strikes, worker strikes, debt strikes, shopping strikes . . . they’re all building toward the goal of a general strike. On May Day, hundreds of organizing groups held strikes to support the many campaigns for healthcare, PPEs, hazard pay, paid sick leave, decarceration, keeping stay-at-home orders while increasing economic relief…

Epic Heroes = Nurses In Nonviolent Action

Posted on April 27, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Nurses are badass heroes in scrubs. Period. But when they step into traffic to halt a car protest of gun-toting “astroturf” protesters demanding that social distancing end, they reach heroism of epic proportions. In Michigan, “Reopen Protest” car demonstrations blocked an emergency room entryway. A few days, Denver medical workers had zero tolerance. They…

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