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Sparking Change: How Movements Pass On Inspiration
/ | Leave a CommentChange doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Resistance is a continuum. Nonviolent movements arise amidst the efforts of many other struggles. The knowledge of how to organize for change is a global legacy passed between movements and generations of activists through lineages of inspiration that stretch through hundreds of years. (The first recorded strike happened in […]
Read more »Turning the Titanic: Belfast Shipyard Workers Want to Build Windmills
/ | Leave a CommentEditor’s Note from Rivera Sun: Each week, I read hundreds of articles and survey close to a thousand headlines in search of the stories I feature in Nonviolence News. Finding these reports bolsters my heart. In New Zealand, 10,000 weapons have been turned in through a buy-back program after the Christchurch massacre. In Brazil, Indigenous women […]
Read more »Against All Odds, We Rise & Resist
/ | Leave a CommentFrom Qatar to Honduras, People Take Action.Nonviolence News: Aug 10th, 2019 Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun: In Nonviolence News this week, you’ll find some powerful stories. Thirteen victories, large and small, show how change is being made step-by-step. Georgians, Russians, Hondurans, migrant workers in Qatar, and Irish and British airport workers are all striving for […]
Read more »Cesar Chavez
/ | Leave a Comment“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak… Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.” – Cesar Chavez Cesar Chavez was born on March 31st, 1927 in Yuma, Arizona. When his family lost their land and farm during […]
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