Ken Butigan, a new book | Nonviolent Lives! People and Movements Changing the World
People and Movements Changing the World Through the Power of Active Nonviolence
I Stand with Standing Rock
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Ann Wright | Women Call for Israel-Palestine Peace
“We cannot count on men to create peace. We will have to do it by ourselves."
Kill the Black Snake | No Pipeline
'We are protectors, not protesters'
FIGHTING FOR ALEPPO: How Syria’s Forgotten Revolutionaries Rose Up “To Kill This Fear”
“Syria has had so many heroes, but people often don’t know who they are.”
CENSORED NEWS | Hennepin County sends special forces to Standing Rock as Minneapolis supports Standing Rock in resolution
Hennepin [County] sends special forces to terrorize Standing Rock water protectors—after Minneapolis and Saint Paul passed resolutions of support for Standing Rock’s resistance to DAPL protection of the water. By Brenda Norrell CENSORED NEWS October 23-25, 2016 Minneapolis was the third city in the U.S. to pass a resolution in support of Standing Rock. Click here for More
Stephan A. Schwartz | The 8 Laws of Social Change
https://youtu.be/uHnqvhWQMV0 If change comes down to 8 laws, could you employ them to make real change? A science-based strategy for achieving enduring wellness-oriented change on a personal, societal, and global Level, these 8 laws of behavior enable any person or small group – even ordinary people without great wealth, official position, or physical power More
Vandana Shiva | Ending a Century of Ecocide and Genocide, Seeding Earth Democracy
Our soils are dying. Our societies are dying. Our children are dying—because of diseases caused by food loaded with toxics.
Erica Chenoweth | Why Civil Resistance Works: Nonviolence in the Past and Future (Video)
Chenoweth conducts a study on violent versus nonviolent tactics and why nonviolence succeeds.
Activists: In Solidarity with Protectors and Defenders
WAMM members support various acts of resistance locally and nationwide. By the Newsletter Staff WAMM Newsletter Fall II 2016 Standing by Standing Rock Indigenous tribes have been in a struggle to defeat pipelines which would carry oil across their lands, destroying the land, poisoning the water, and desecrating sacred sites. A victory was achieved when More
Natasha Lennard | Five Years After the Brooklyn Bridge Arrests, the Occupy Wall Street Worth Remembering
Sen. Sanders has stood with the protestors at Standing Rock, and elsewhere, which recalls a different Occupy legacy worth preserving: If elected officials turned up, they stood with the group, in the group, not for the group.
#NoWar2016 | Protest at the Pentagon (Video)
Rev. Janice Sevre-Duszynska one of those arrested explained why she was at the Pentagon seeking a meeting today “The measure of a healthy society is how we treat the marginalized. How we can care for them in a just and humane manner when 56% of the federal budget goes to the Pentagon for its 800+ military bases and the killing?