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Waging Nonviolence

Authoritarianism
Understanding Trump’s game plan in Portland could be the key to preventing a coup in November

Understanding Trump’s game plan in Portland could be the key to preventing a coup in November

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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 […]

Uncategorized
As ‘annexation’ looms, let’s expand our compassion to include Palestinians

As ‘annexation’ looms, let’s expand our compassion to include Palestinians

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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 […]

Far Right
From Jones’s Kool-Aid to Trump’s Clorox– Can we Finally leave the Death Cults Behind Us?

From Jones’s Kool-Aid to Trump’s Clorox– Can we Finally leave the Death Cults Behind Us?

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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 […]

Israel/ Palestine
How Imprisoned Palestinians gain Rights from everyday Resistance

How Imprisoned Palestinians gain Rights from everyday Resistance

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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 […]

Bernie Sanders
We need a People’s Response to Coronavirus – and the Sanders Campaign is Uniquely Poised to Lead

We need a People’s Response to Coronavirus – and the Sanders Campaign is Uniquely Poised to Lead

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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 […]

Displaced and Refugees
Between Libya and the Deep Blue Sea: How migrant rescuers are making history in the Mediterranean

Between Libya and the Deep Blue Sea: How migrant rescuers are making history in the Mediterranean

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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 […]

Climate Crisis
Why Gen Z is at the Vanguard of the Climate Movement

Why Gen Z is at the Vanguard of the Climate Movement

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From the rise of organizations like Zero Hour to Greta Thunberg’s Fridays For Future, the youth climate movement is only just getting started.

Lebanon
Lebanon’s Peaceful Protesters have One Demand: The Whole Rotten Elite Must Go

Lebanon’s Peaceful Protesters have One Demand: The Whole Rotten Elite Must Go

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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 […]

Congress
Impeachment was only Made Possible by a Grassroots Mass Movement

Impeachment was only Made Possible by a Grassroots Mass Movement

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By Anthony Torres (1st Published at Waging Nonviolence) – The last few weeks have been a turning point for impeachment. Suddenly, dozens of members of Congress dashed at once to announce their support until the pro-impeachment faction had grown to a majority of the House of Representatives. And today the House overwhelmingly passed a resolution […]

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