Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun There’s a lot going on in Nonviolence News this week: Myanmar’s allies in the US are pushing to stop jet fuel and weapons sales to the military junta, Serbia and Guatemala are struggling over disputed elections, and First Nations activists broke into Trans Mountain Pipeline offices in Canada to stop…
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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…
Pots-and-Pans Protests Raise a Racket for Justice
Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Nonviolence comes in thousands of shapes and sizes. It’s a force, a field of potential, a method of making change, even a way of life. While this week’s headline celebrates the Latin America-wide cacerolazo (pots-and-pans protest), I’m also uplifting a few stories that show the wide-ranging potential of nonviolence, from small acts…