…community celebration. It is a moment to rekindle to love and faith in our hearts. Find the Community Publishing Campaign here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-roots-of-resistance#/ In gratitude, joyful tears, and deep love, Rivera…
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“Seeking human kindness” by Enver Rahmanov – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons – As I’m riding the overnight train from Chicago to New Mexico, an…
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…saw irritation zip across the thin biologist’s face. Louisa was such a stickler for communication protocol. “Mmm-hmm, y’all want folks to feel sorry for you, huh? Well, I don’t. Don’t…
Read more »…available as a podcast at OccupytheMedia.podomatic.com.) For your reference and utter enjoyment, please check out The Singing Revolution, the story of Estonia’s nonviolent struggle for liberation. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA9PmZo-2jo…
Read more »…older you grow wiser.” Boggs eventually adopted Dr. King’s nonviolent strategies and fostered Dr. King’s vision of “beloved communities,” in Detroit. She started food cooperatives and community groups to support…
Read more »Starlings in Murmuration over Rome. Image from Creative Commons (CCO). Support the Commons! Murmuration Exercise Adapted for movements and organizations by Rivera Sun Please use and share, but please let…
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This is an excerpt from Rivera Sun’s novel, The Dandelion Insurrection, featuring a moment when Zadie Byrd Gray commits to being a love-motivated changemaker and living up to her inner…
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…political messaging of the supremacy of commerce. When people complain about their fellow citizens holding signs on the street corners, they are, in essence, stating that they believe commerce and…
Read more »…compelling power holders to rise out of complacency, silence, and avoidance of the issues, movements can pressure power holders to use their leverage for tangible social justice changes. When people…
Read more »…their rights. Yesterday, in real life, I represented CodePink in testifying to a congressional commission against expanding the military draft to women. As I told the commissioners: “Women’s equality cannot…
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