Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun Thanks for your patience last week as I tended to a combination of personal and political crises, and couldn’t put together the regular edition of Nonviolence News. From consoling activists to strategizing with organizers, it was already an intense time when a family situation called me away from my desk….
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Insure Our Survival, Lawn Chair Tree-Sit & Beatles Statue Holds Climate Protest
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun The streets of London are facing the colorful, disruptive direct actions of Extinction Rebellion’s Insure Our Survival Campaign (pictured above). Focused on the insurance companies backing fossil fuels, the sit-ins, die-ins, marches, rallies, and other acts of civil disobedience happening this week are pressuring insurers to stop providing oil, gas,…
45K Dockworkers Win Strike, Street Photography Exhibit For Political Prisoners & Legal Victories For Activists
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun There are some issues that all nonviolent activists and social movements should work together on to defend the right to organize for change: freeing political prisoners is one of them. (Protecting and expanding the right to protest, assemble, unionize, and free speech are a few others, in case you were…
A15Action, Octopussy Riot & Smuggled Tibetan Resistance Footage
Editor’s Note From Rivera Sun When I read the stories for Nonviolence News, I look for sparks of courage. I search for irrepressible creativity. I look for the powerful emotions that propel humanity to stand up for change. I seek out smart strategies and savvy organizing. And I always find these things, week after week….