Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun From the global labor movement’s resurgence to interesting strategies in a wide range of campaigns, Nonviolence News offers a lot to mull on this week. Latvian teachers held an intense 3-day strike that led to higher wages. New York took thousands of guns off the streets with a buyback program….
Tag: Ukraine
Yellow Ribbon Digital Resistance, Oar-Powered Ocean Clean-Up & LA School Workers Win
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Los Angeles City Schools shut down for 3 days as school workers (custodians, cafeteria workers, bus drivers) went on strike. United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) joined them in solidarity, bringing the total number of striking workers to over 60,000. It worked. The 30,000 support workers have won a tentative deal for…
Sri Lankan Shut-Down, Aussie Tree-Sit, Sami Wind Farm Sit-In, Pashtuns Protest Police
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week, US activists are mobilizing actions to stop Cop City, a planned tactical urban warfare training center for police that has already led to one protester’s death. Across the globe, Pashtuns held a massive demonstration in protest of police harassment and militarization. The increasing militarization of police, and high…
Haiti Marches, France Strikes, Chad Protests, Egypt Demands Rosetta Stone Back
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun There’s a lot going on in the world. In Chad, protesters are mourning after security forces opened fire on people demanding that the military regime transition to civilian rule. France is bracing for the moment when widespread protests turn into a general strike. Afghan women held protests against the Taliban,…
Enough Is Enough, Whales Swim Safe & Nonviolent Resistance In Ukraine
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Cost-of-living protests continue to grab global headlines. In the United Kingdom, synchronized demonstrations launched the Enough Is Enough campaign, which has five reasonable demands (proper living-wage rises, decent homes for all, higher taxes on wealth and windfalls, and an end to poverty of food and heating). Many groups are part…
Tunisia’s General Strike, Anonymous Wired Ukraine Sirens To Sound Alarms In Russia, Airports & Trains Shut Down By Strikes
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Across Europe, airports and train routes are being disrupted by strikes, including the UK’s largest rail strike in decades. After the South Korean truckers strike won important concessions, it seems like Argentine truckers may be taking a page out of their playbook, shutting down roads to protest diesel shortages and…
Cuba’s Massive May Day March, Sri Lanka’s National Strike & Anti-War Activists Everywhere
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun On May 1st, the international date honoring workers, marches and strikes launched around the world. Many countries’ laborers used the moment to call for peace in Ukraine, recognizing the longstanding connection between labor justice and anti-war organizing. Cuba held an impressively enormous day of action, mobilizing half its population in…
Scientist Rebellion, Flower Pickers Strike, Debt Collective Action, Student-Teacher Solidarity
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun I love smart campaigns. Strategy is powerful. A group of flower pickers in Washington State held a quickie strike just 2-days before a huge flower festival. Needless to say, the company conceded swiftly, meeting the workers demands. Timing is everything, they say. Another story that caught my eye this week…
Women Take Action For Earth, 50K Mexicans Against Femicide, 80K French Climate Protesters
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun What a week! You’ll be amazed by the profuse abundance of stories in Nonviolence News. Argentine climate activists (above) are celebrating the suspension of off-shore oil exploration. 50,000 Mexican women protested femicide on Women’s Day. In Kenya, women marched on the police station after a female driver was assaulted. Chile’s…
Women’s Day, Don’t Say Gay, Ecobarrios, Migrant Workers & Beach Battles
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun This week’s Nonviolence News is wide-ranging, stretching from stories of how virtual reality is making imaginative space for social justice to how Black-owned farms in the US have to fight to hold onto their land. The breadth of organizing is staggering and eye-opening. Puerto Ricans are mobilizing to stop rich…