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Waging Nonviolence

Waging Nonviolence is an independent, non-profit media platform dedicated to providing original reporting and expert analysis of social movements around the world. They believe that when ordinary people organize they have incredible power and are the drivers of social change — not politicians, billionaires or corporations. Since their founding in 2009, they have published reporting from contributors in more than 80 countries — with a special focus on overlooked movements in the Global South, as well as issues that traditional media tend to ignore.

Anti-War Movement
Where’s the Resistance to the Iran War?

Where’s the Resistance to the Iran War?

Waging Nonviolence

A majority of Americans opposed the war in Iran before the U.S. first attacked — nearly 60 percent of  Americans disapprove

BDS
How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds

How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds

Waging Nonviolence

Under pressure from local divestment campaigns, US states and municipalities that underwrote the genocide in Gaza are selling off Israeli bonds.

Authoritarianism
Steadfast Resistance under Occupation from Minneapolis to Palestine

Steadfast Resistance under Occupation from Minneapolis to Palestine

Waging Nonviolence

The people of Minneapolis and Palestine have both responded to occupation and state terror with extraordinary courage and love

Israel/ Palestine
Dance and Music are potent forms of cultural Defiance in Palestine

Dance and Music are potent forms of cultural Defiance in Palestine

Waging Nonviolence

With Palestinian history censored by the Israeli occupation, youth programs preserve collective memory through traditional music and dance.

Climate Crisis
How to turn Extreme Weather Tragedies into Climate Victories

How to turn Extreme Weather Tragedies into Climate Victories

Waging Nonviolence

After an extreme weather event, climate organizers can seize the opportunity to push for tangible policy change

Israel/ Palestine
Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences

Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences

Waging Nonviolence

No strangers to the perils of war, Ukrainian activists and journalists are connecting their struggle to Gaza. Eleftheria Kousta ( Waging Nonviolence ) – As Russian attacks were keeping Kyiv’s residents awake most nights this summer, a group of Ukrainians gathered outside the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide to protest Israel’s siege of Gaza and […]

Israel/ Palestine
How the pro-Palestine Movement is outsmarting the Algorithms

How the pro-Palestine Movement is outsmarting the Algorithms

Waging Nonviolence

Farah Awadalla ( Waging Nonviolence ) – For Nour Omar, a student in Cairo with 5,000 Instagram followers, reposting news about the genocide in Gaza is the smallest thing she can do that still feels like something. Usually, her posts draw hundreds of views an hour.  On a Tuesday night in November 2023, a few […]

Arms Sales
A 40-year Fight against Cluster Bombs offers Lessons to stop the US-Israel Weapons Pipeline

A 40-year Fight against Cluster Bombs offers Lessons to stop the US-Israel Weapons Pipeline

Waging Nonviolence

The Honeywell Project in Minneapolis showed how to beat a weapons maker: obstruct operations, recruit workers as allies, build camaraderie and persist no matter what. Joseph Mogul ( Waging Nonviolence ) – After more than two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, popular outrage has mounted against the weapons manufacturers enabling the slaughter. The antiwar […]

BDS
Imposing Sanctions on Israel with Love

Imposing Sanctions on Israel with Love

Waging Nonviolence

Sanctions are required to get beyond the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, and love is required to transform the immense trauma in Israel that fuels the violence.   Miki Kashtan ( Waging Nonviolence ) – None of us know how to stop what is happening in Gaza. Even within this brutal reality, each of us can […]

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