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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…

Doctors & Nurses Take Action In Myanmar, Sudan, and Beyond

Posted on January 14, 2022

Editor’s Note By Rivera Sun As if a global pandemic weren’t enough, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers have been rising up against injustice for a broad range of issues across the globe. In Myanmar, they continue to resist the military coup. In Sudan, they’re demanding that the hospitals be spared from attacks by security…

Climate Kids Take The Streets, Farmers Block Roads & Who Shut Down The Golden Gate Bridge?

Posted on October 2, 2021October 2, 2021

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The student climate strike movement, Fridays For The Future, is back with 1,400 rallies in 80 countries. Over a million people participated, with close to 800,000 protesters in Berlin, alone. Other campaigns also mobilized this week, including direct actions to halt the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Line 3 Pipeline. A…

Rainforest Tree Seeks Asylum, Indian Autoworkers Protest, Thai Taxi Drivers Build Rooftop Gardens On Vehicles, 5K Cops Shifted Out Of School Policing

Posted on September 25, 2021September 25, 2021

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Well, here’s one I’ve never heard before: A tree in Brazil has requested asylum at the Norwegian embassy. Threatened by the destruction of the rainforest, it – like many other species – is endangered. The Indigenous activists who brought the tree to the embassy say it needs protection. Indeed, the…

1,000 Strikes … And Those Pesky Media Spins

Posted on September 11, 2020September 11, 2020

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Media can be a problem. A big one. Extinction Rebellion just blockaded newspapers over their failure to report on the climate crisis. Meanwhile, a new report dispels the media narrative about the “violent” Black Lives Matter protests. The report finds that in 93% of the thousands of protests involving nearly…

#CancelRent, Bad Jazz, and Something Fishy About Nonviolence

Posted on September 5, 2020September 5, 2020

Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun #CancelRent. Fifteen cities in the United States recently had uprisings for housing justice. People are occupying vacant homes, holding sit-ins at public offices, setting up encampments, and organizing anti-eviction blockades. Recently, the National Eviction Moratorium delayed evictions in federal housing until January … when tenants will be forced to pay…

From Blockades To Embroidery

Posted on August 21, 2020August 21, 2020

Editor’s Note Moving beyond protests, people around the world are using nonviolent acts of noncooperation and intervention to strive for change. From blockades to embroidery, they’re using dozens of tactics. In Bolivia, 140 road blockades are shutting down the nation to stop the delays in their elections. Arizona schoolteachers, worried about unsafe school re-openings amidst the…

Safe Schools, Healthy Kids, Ending Racism: Public Health As Nonviolence

Posted on August 7, 2020August 8, 2020

Editor’s Note Public health is nonviolence in action. It’s a collection of policies and practices rooted in systemic and structural nonviolence as opposed to “systemic and structural violence“. For example, in a bid to stop obesity and diabetes, Oaxaca, Mexico, just banned the sale of junk food and sugary drinks to minors. It’s a stunning…

Crumbling Racism, Pillar By Pillar

Posted on June 6, 2020

Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun If you watch what’s happening in the United States carefully, you’ll spot a key insight into how nonviolent struggle works. In nonviolent change, we use a model called Pillars of Support to describe how groups, individuals, organizations can prop up a problem or injustice in our world. These may be groups like…

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