Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Each week, I collect between 30 and 50 stories of nonviolent action. This week, however, we had more stories than we could handle. There are 61 reports in this week’s Nonviolence News – and many more that I’ll share next week. It’s a reflection of the way nonviolent actions are…
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Special Report 2023 – 66 Success Stories For Safer Communities, Teens, Women, LGBTQ+, and Beyond
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Let’s close out 2023 by realizing some of the progress that has been made. It’s been a doozy of a year with horrific wars, existential movements rising up, perilous protest conditions, and catastrophic climate disasters. People are organizing because they must. It is essential to survival. Be sure to check…
Mexico Objects To Tourist Train, Sri Lankan Tea Pickers Strike, & Trevi Fountain Turned Black
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…
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…
Moms March For Climate Justice, Brazil’s Creative Brigades Protect Rainforest, Afghan Women Demand Bread, Work & Freedom
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun They expected 5,000 people. The march quadrupled, bringing 20,000 Australians into the streets of Sydney to demand more stringent climate measures from authorities. Instead of accepting a 43% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030, students, mothers, activists, and Aboriginal protesters pointed out that a 75% reduction is an absolute necessity….
Reflective Reindeer, Hungary’s Rainbow, and Iran’s Water Protests
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Examples of creative nonviolence are why I spend hours searching for Nonviolence News stories each week. Take this report from Finland, for example. 4,000 reindeer die each year in car collisions in Finland. Finally, reindeer protection groups came up with a surprising solution: paint antlers with reflective paint. When cars…
Dead Mermaids Protest, Utility Bill Strike, Google LASD Gangs Banner Drops
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun A mermaid is a myth, but like all myths, it brings our attention to the story we need to hear right now. Our oceans and planet are in danger. Humanity cannot survive without them. This theatrical climate action (pictured above) of dead mermaids washing up on the shore near the…
3,500 Climate Strikes, Underground Protests, & 150K Poor People Flooding Phones
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun It’s been a big week. 3,500 climate actions happened in 150 countries. Amid continuing pandemic restrictions and concerns, children sent their shoes to stand in protest in their place. In addition, another 4,000 actions and events took place for a culture of peace and active nonviolence, free from war, poverty,…
Berliners Send “Build-a-Wall” Trump a 2.7 Ton Chunk of the Berlin Wall
Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun The Nonviolence News “Great Reporting of the Week” Award goes to an AP news article on Little Rock, Arkansas teachers struggling to win back recognition of their union by the state. The AP reporter managed to mention and define 3 types of nonviolent action that are specific, little-known, and very…