Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News edition delivers a high volume of reflective, insightful, and thought-provoking pieces along with current events. You’ll find articles on the history of the prison books movement in the United States, who is beating back book bans, ways Southeast Asians are organizing to get around digital repression,…
Tag: Palestine
Indian Farmers March (Again), Mardi Gras Protests & Gaza Ceasefire Push Continues
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Each week, I collect between 30 and 50 stories of nonviolent action. This week, however, we had more stories than we could handle. There are 61 reports in this week’s Nonviolence News – and many more that I’ll share next week. It’s a reflection of the way nonviolent actions are…
Unions Call For Ceasefire, French Tractor Blockades & Machu Picchu Protests
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun After blockading the roads around Paris with their tractors, French farmers won offers of major concessions from the government, including promises of cash and easing of regulations. Two major farmer unions called off their protests, though other groups may continue to push for more demands. Across Europe, farmer protests continue…
Green Canal In Venice, 8 Bridges Blocked For Ceasefire & Russian Anti-War Art Museum
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The infamous Grand Canal of Venice, Italy, turned a brilliant green color with non-harming dye as part of a climate protest calling for immediate action on the climate crisis. Activists suspended from bridges, marched in the streets, and decried the failure of COP28. The dye is used to trace water…
Warm Up Protests, Slow Marches, Bangladesh Garment Workers Strike & 2 Million Indonesians Protest For Palestine
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The global movement for a ceasefire in Gaza escalated its tactics this week. Not only have the protests grown in size (2 million in Jakarta, Indonesia; 300,000 in DC), but they’re shifting from demonstrations to direct actions. Defense industry companies such as Boeing, Raytheon, Blackrock, and Colt were hit with…
Moroccan Earthquake Aid, Palestinian General Strike, Panama Copper Mine Protests
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun It’s a powerful week in Nonviolence News. In addition to growing protests and direct actions for a ceasefire in Gaza (see next paragraph), numerous other major actions took place. In Morocco, people displaced by a recent earthquake have been holding protests over lack of emergency aid and the worsening housing…
Global Protests For Gaza, Icelandic Women Strike & Kids Hold Roblox Protests
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun As the death toll in Gaza passes 7,000 – including 3,000 children – actions to stop the genocide of Palestinians are escalating worldwide. Hundreds of thousands of people are demonstrating across Indonesia, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Lebanon, Indonesia, Malaysia, Chile and beyond. Mass actions have taken place throughout Europe (including…
Kashmir’s Electric Bill Strike, Guatemala’s Roadblocks, Protests for Palestine, India’s Women March
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In this week’s Nonviolence News, we share the protests around the world calling for a ceasefire, peace, humanitarian relief, an end to the violence, and for the context of apartheid to be included in the discourse about what’s happening. Palestinians who have been part of nonviolent resistance and peace work…
Tenants Act, Tiny Russian Peace Protesters, Pilots Strike Wins, Israel In the Streets
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Sometimes, you hear a demand so impactful in its strategy that you can’t help but cheer the campaign on. In the United States, tenants are demanding that President Biden implement rent control on all government-backed housing projects. This move could impact up to 1/3 of all renters in the United…
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…