The British climate movement’s ‘Big One’ brought out record numbers, but ran into a wall of silence. XR’s new strategy could turn this setback into a new lease on life. Douglas Rogers Waging Nonviolence June 8, 2023 A march during the Big One on April 24. (Extinction Rebellion) It’s been just over a month since More
How protests that double as trainings are growing this fossil fuel divestment campaign By melding theory and practice, Philadelphia’s Vanguard S.O.S. are building skills and collective power. Ray Bailey Metta Center for Nonviolence May 25, 2023 On a cool, clear April morning just past 8 a.m., the sprawling corporate campus of the world’s second largest asset More
Despite the green rhetoric, only 6 percent of the fiscal stimulus packages implemented by the G20 nations in 2020 and 2021 have contributed to emissions reductions, even as oil company profits soared to record highs.
A list of nonviolent tactics (from Gene Sharp,,"The Methods of Nonviolent Action," Boston 1973)
WAMM has a proud history of saying “never a U.S. military intervention or war without an opposition.” By Kristin Dooley, WAMM Director Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) was founded on January 16, 1982 at a conference at the Newman Center, which once stood on the East Bank Campus of the University of Minnesota (UMN) in More
"Move and you're dead!" What? Who was this fellow? By Chuck Turchick July 14, 2020 "Move and you're dead!" What? Who was this fellow? With a cut-off sweatshirt, jeans, loafers without socks, I noticed he also had a gun pointed at me. Following him were a phalanx of about a dozen others. Who were they? More
Includes Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announcing the changing of charges against Derek Chauvin to 2nd Degree Murder and the charging of the other three officers; we also hear from Tamika Mallory in New York and Nekima Levy Armstrong in Minnesota with information about Breonna Taylor of others in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Trident is the deadliest weapon on the planet. Disarm and Live! Also featuring Jeremy Scahill, Medea Benjamin and Cornel West https://youtu.be/4PoFkIMISHI Panelists: • Dr. Cornel West • Jeremy Scahill • Medea Benjamin • The Kings Bay Plowshares 7: ◦ Martha Hennessy, Dorothy Day’s granddaughter, Catholic Worker ◦ Steve Kelly, S.J., Catholic priest ◦ Carmen Trotta, Catholic More
Chris Hedges discusses the demise of Truthdig and the media, Julian Assange, and America now and the relationship of compassion and activism in resistance.
"Everyone was allowed to go to the Raptors victory parade so can I go to the climate strike?"
“It is our sacred duty to rebel in order to protect our homes, our future, and the future of all life on Earth,” Extinction Rebellion writes.
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