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…
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One Million Bolivians March, Intermodal Workers Double Salaries, Scientists Issue Paper On Necessity of Climate Action
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Bolivia’s use of nonviolent struggle has already reached epic proportions – and they’re at it again. Recently, a million Bolivians marched in La Paz in support of their left-wing government. The action was meant to counter right-wing attempts to destabilize the government and oust the president. If this all seems…
Rollerblade Climate Protests, Kayakers Block Oil Tanker, Ukrainian Protesters Push Back Soldiers
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun There are signs of hope. You just need to know where to look for them. (Hint: right here at Nonviolence News!) This week, hundreds of thousands of school children went on strike, marching out of classrooms in 750 cities and towns to demand climate action. Students in Kenya (above) even…
Sit-In Baby, 1-Hr School Bus Strike & Student Walkouts
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun A young boy was born into the struggle – literally. His parents had launched a sit-in strike in India, demanding land rights that the government had denied, when his mother went into labor. She refused to leave and gave birth to him right there on the frontline of the sit-in….
Serbia’s Climate March, South Korea’s Grandparents & Global Migrant and Refugee Protests
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun In this week’s Nonviolence News, the 3,000 Columbia University teachers ended their historic strike and won several significant gains in their new contract. Meanwhile, 8,000 grocery store workers are on strike across the United States, namely because they can’t afford to buy groceries on their wages. Pakistani women organized a…
Doctors & Nurses Take Action In Myanmar, Sudan, and Beyond
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…
#Striketober, 500,000 South Koreans Walkout & Crashing Fashion For Climate Action
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…
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…