Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Thanks for your patience last week as I tended to a combination of personal and political crises, and couldn’t put together the regular edition of Nonviolence News. From consoling activists to strategizing with organizers, it was already an intense time when a family situation called me away from my desk….
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Vampire Oil Companies, Tyrannical Presidents & Bold Wins: Resistance Stories We Need
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun It’s been a rough week. Nonviolence News stories got me through it. Why? Because my fellow human beings around the world have shown that tyrants, dictators, and authoritarians don’t get the last word. They’ve lived up to Gandhi’s quote: “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way…
Political Rock Song Tops Charts, Eco-Blockade Shuts Down Oil Site & Fast Fashion’s Slow Down
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week, we’re trying something a little different. Let me know if you like it better, worse, and the same as the other format. I’m hoping our round-up is pleasant to read as you sip your coffee (or gulp your tea) and offers digestible tidbits that entice you to follow…
Mexico Marches, Argentina Protests University Cuts, Malta Halts Weapons Ship
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun A decade after 43 students were forcibly disappeared, hundreds of teachers and students marched through the streets in Mexico, demanding answers. The assault on the school buses 10 years ago sent shock waves through the country, and the involvement of the police and federal government has stalled the investigation into…
45K Dockworkers Win Strike, Street Photography Exhibit For Political Prisoners & Legal Victories For Activists
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun There are some issues that all nonviolent activists and social movements should work together on to defend the right to organize for change: freeing political prisoners is one of them. (Protecting and expanding the right to protest, assemble, unionize, and free speech are a few others, in case you were…
#EvictTheLords Light Projection, Coal Protests In Australia, Tunisia Rallies & Youth In Resistance
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Why are politicians so fixated on driving humanity into apocalypse? Australian’s government campaigned on climate action, but then approved three new coal mines that will lock-in carbon emissions until 2066 – long past the deadline for stopping the climate crisis. The only good news about this is that Australians protested…
Hondurans Resist Coup, Campaign Nonviolence’s 5,209+ Actions & Black Dancers Strike
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Today, September 21, marks the International Day of Peace. Around the world, millions of people will join city governments and community groups in rallies, vigils, and celebrations for peace. Yet, with ongoing wars in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and many other places, many activists are honoring the…
Israel’s General Strike, Upgrade Democracy & Indonesia Student Protests
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun How much injustice, harm, and destruction takes place in our world because democracy remains an aspiration rather than an actuality? Democracy and nonviolence go hand-in-hand. From Gandhi’s independence movement (which he called Indian Self-Rule) to the Philippines People Power Movement to keep the dictator from stealing the election, nonviolent action…
Pink Vest Safety Teams, Stroller Lock-Downs, Singing Protests & a Historic Win
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News is just full of fascinating stories: Cornell University workers just won a historic contract that includes up-to a 25.4% increase in wages, a cost-of-living adjustment, elimination of a two-tiered wage system, and much more. Australians can now ignore their bosses on the weekends, thanks to a…
South Africans Mourn Coal Mines, France’s Water Village, UK Imam Counters Hate With Empathy
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun One of the powers of nonviolence action is its ability to embody the full range of human emotion. Beyond the expression of justifiable outrage, activists can express worry, fear, compassion, vision, sorrow, hope, and even humor. In South Africa, climate activists mourned the plans to build two new coal mines…