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…
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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….
3K Migrant Caravan, 12K Belgiums March & 8K French Citizens Block New Motorway With DIY Wall
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Thousands are on the march for a range of social justice issues this week. After 41 deaths in a detention center fire, a migrant caravan of 3,000 people is marching to Mexico City to speed up legal immigration routes. Argentines filled two lanes of a divided highway as they marched…
Climate Actions & Earth Day, Pothole Flower-Planting Hijinks, Egyptian & Iranian Women Resist Morality Police
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun On Earth Day, April 22, 2023, millions of people are taking action on behalf of our imperiled planet (or, more accurately, our imperiled species and ecosystems). With the climate crisis heating up, business-as-usual destroying hope, and politicians dragging their feet, many people are doing far more than picking up garbage…
Uzbekistan Protects Women, Ethics Board Resigns Over Taser Drones In Schools, German Climate Activists & Transport Workers Join Forces
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In a rare glimmer of good news, Uzbekistan is on the verge of passing landmark laws to prevent gender-based violence. The activists have faced an uphill climb in a culture where domestic violence is rampant. But if the president signs the bill passed by parliament, it will offer women and…
Moon Rights, Indian Farmers March, France Dumpster Fires & South Korean Workers Revolt
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun How much work is too much? Two struggles from opposite sides of the world reveal a vast difference in work standards, especially for the old and young. In France, citizens outraged by the president’s unilateral attempt to raise the retirement age from 62 up to 64-70, blocked the streets and…
Iran Dance Protests, Bake Sale Solidarity, Feminist Housework Strike, Train Wrecks
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In Iran, where women are not allowed to dance in public, a group of girls were hunted down by the morality police for making a viral dance video. In protest, other women made videos of themselves doing the same dance. The uprising continues. Meanwhile, millions of women across Latin America…
Sri Lankan Shut-Down, Aussie Tree-Sit, Sami Wind Farm Sit-In, Pashtuns Protest Police
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week, US activists are mobilizing actions to stop Cop City, a planned tactical urban warfare training center for police that has already led to one protester’s death. Across the globe, Pashtuns held a massive demonstration in protest of police harassment and militarization. The increasing militarization of police, and high…