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…
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…
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.
Mexico Disarmament, South Korea Wins, Romania in an Uproar & Hopes of a Ceasefire
Image: Remix of India Farmer Protests by Jaskaran (JK Photography), CC BY-SA 4.0 Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun South Koreans’ persistence has finally paid off: after weeks of protesting for the arrest of their suspended President Yoon Suk-yeol over his martial law and power grab, he has been apprehended and will face legal proceedings. This…
Hunger Strike For Higher Wages, Skateboarders For Teen Mental Health & 1 Million South Koreans Protest
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun For over a year, we’ve been sharing stories about the LA hotel workers’ rolling strike organized by Unite Here Local 11. This brave campaign tackled over 100 hotels and coordinated low-income, often undocumented hotel workers to strike at one hotel after another. They’ve already succeeded at 68 hotels and are…