Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Welcome to #Striketober, a month of worker strikes that are sweeping across industries. According to the Intercept, 10,000 John Deere tractor company workers are on strike, joining “2,000 hospital workers striking in Buffalo, New York; 1,400 production workers for Kellogg’s in four states; 450 steelworkers in Huntington, West Virginia; and…
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Honoring MLK With Action
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is commemorated each January in the United States. In many places, he is honored with “service”. This focus, while admirable, evades the radical legacy of resistance that defined Dr. King’s use of nonviolence as a tool of social change. To me, every person engaged in…
300 Victories in 2020, Peru’s Farmer Protests, & India’s Record-Breaking Strike
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun When I read that India’s farmers led a record-breaking, 250 million person strike against corporate agriculture laws, I cheered. Then I found out that Peru’s farmers rose up against a similar farmworker-abusing law and got it repealed. Double cheers! I come from a farming family. When I train people in…
Safe Schools, Healthy Kids, Ending Racism: Public Health As Nonviolence
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…
Protest Fashion – Resistance Never Goes Out Of Style
Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Resistance never goes out of style. It’s a look more and more people are “wearing”. And it’s a good look for these times. We need people to stand up for the planet, for human rights, for equality and justice for all. Take the Extinction Rebellion protester in the photo above, for…
Climate Strikes, Car Blockades, and Autoworker Strikes, Oh My!
Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun The Global Climate Strikes are the headline grabbers this week. 4.1 million people in 185 countries took to the streets to demand climate justice. And some people are warning that this is just the beginning: the General Strike for Climate is coming up on Friday, Sept 27th. No work, no…