By Nick Engelfried | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – When New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced last month that the state would divest its over $200 billion Common Retirement Fund from more than 20 coal companies, it marked an important milestone for a grassroots campaign that has seen a recent burst of new […]
Understanding Trump’s game plan in Portland could be the key to preventing a coup in November
George Lakey | – (Waging Nonviolence ) – While outrage was still growing in Oregon over federal agents’ intervention in Portland, President Trump on July 20 named Chicago, New York, Detroit, Baltimore and Oakland, California as possible next targets. Since then Albuquerque was added to the list. Although the agents’ mission was supposedly to protect […]
As ‘annexation’ looms, let’s expand our compassion to include Palestinians
By David Hart | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – For decades, Israel has used talk of peace as a cover for expansion of an unjust system. We are now poised on a dangerous cliff that should offend everyone who believes themselves to be committed to human rights, international law or creative conflict resolution. I […]
From Jones’s Kool-Aid to Trump’s Clorox– Can we Finally leave the Death Cults Behind Us?
By Michael Nagler | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – When I compared the president and his followers to Jim Jones and the “Peoples Temple” cult two years ago I didn’t expect many would go that far. In fact, I hoped events would prove me wrong. Unfortunately, the comparison has become inescapable, and other writers have […]
How Imprisoned Palestinians gain Rights from everyday Resistance
By Julie Norman | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – Amid the ongoing spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, Palestinians are among some of the most vulnerable people facing this global crisis – and Palestinian prisoners are in even greater danger of contracting the virus. Having conducted research with Palestinian prisoners on acts of everyday resistance, I […]
We need a People’s Response to Coronavirus – and the Sanders Campaign is Uniquely Poised to Lead
By Fhatima Paulino, Carlos Saavedra, and Rodrigo Saavedra | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – The movement behind the Bernie Sanders campaign has the vision, infrastructure and leadership to address the government’s failed pandemic response. The eve of Super Tuesday was just 12 days ago, a moment when many of us in the progressive left were […]
Between Libya and the Deep Blue Sea: How migrant rescuers are making history in the Mediterranean
By Bryan Farrell (Waging Nonviolence) – While governments fail to meet basic humanitarian requirements, rescue organizations like Sea-Watch are taking life-saving action on the frontlines of the European migrant crisis. [Listen to this bonus “City of Refuge” episode or read a Q&A version below that has been lightly edited for length and clarity.] When I […]
Why Gen Z is at the Vanguard of the Climate Movement
By Nick Engelfried | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – For the first decade and a half of her life, Jamie Margolin was like any other U.S. teen living in the suburbs. She went to school, made friends and got involved in sports. Yet all the while, beneath the surface, lurked the fear of a looming […]
Lebanon’s Peaceful Protesters have One Demand: The Whole Rotten Elite Must Go
By Jenny Gustafsson | – (Via Waging Nonviolence) – Unlike previous movements, demonstrations in Lebanon have spread to all parts of the country and are targeting the entire political establishment. Holding a megaphone, a women chants to the crowds gathered at Martyrs’ Square in the middle of central Beirut, “We are the revolution of the […]
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