Umut Özkırımlı ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Despite initial skepticism regarding the results of the November 2002 general elections — which saw the decimation of the incumbent coalition and veteran politicians by the newcomer Justice and Development Party, or AKP, and its leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — Western pundits soon hailed Turkey as […]
The Crimes and Dangers of Elliott Abrams: Why Biden Should not Appoint Him
Ariel Gold and Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler ( Waging Nonviolence ) – It was a bright sunny March morning in 1980. Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was saying mass at a church hospital in San Salvador when a bullet from a sniper rifle ripped through his heart. He stumbled and fell to the ground, […]
France’s Double Uprising: Will the Earth be Habitable; Will France be Habitable for People of Color?
By Nicolas Haeringer | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – On June 27, Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old French boy of North African descent was murdered by a white police officer in a Parisian suburb. Since then, anger has erupted almost everywhere in the country, especially in poor neighborhoods. Young people are taking to the streets to […]
Palestinian Bil’in’s successful Resistance Campaign against the Israeli Wall
Michael Schulz ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Anyone taking a drive into the occupied West Bank towards the little village of Bil’in will soon realize the diverging worlds the Israelis and Palestinians live in. While Israeli illegal settlements are mushrooming on various West Bank hilltops, the Palestinian villages are struggling to survive the Israeli […]
How Protests that double as Trainings are growing this Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign
Ray Bailey ( Waging Nonviolence ) – On a cool, clear April morning just past 8 a.m., the sprawling corporate campus of the world’s second largest asset manager was suddenly roused from its suburban Philadelphia calm. While about 20 activists broke into song, unfurled banners, stepped into the road and began blockading Vanguard’s entrances, around […]
Divest, Decarbonize and Dissociate – Inside the Bold new Push to Get Fossil Fuels off Campus
By Nick Engelfried ( Waging Nonviolence) – From late November through early March of this year, visitors to the University of Washington Career Center in Seattle would have found students sitting in a circle on the floor, some doing homework on laptops as they participated in one of the longest-running recent climate protests at the […]
To Those Jewish Americans Who Protested Minister Smotrich with Me: We Have to Talk about the Palestinians
Via Fellowship Magazine By David Hart ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Earlier this month, I attended the large Jewish-led demonstration in Washington, D.C. (un)welcoming Israeli Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich to the U.S. We gathered in the cold rain to say that his remarks celebrating a brutal pogrom — and suggesting the state […]
How to beat the Fracking Frenzy–Lessons from the Campaign that ended it in Ireland
The successful Irish anti-fracking struggle offers key insights on community power building for anti-extraction movements all over the world. Jamie Gorman
Northwest Climate Activists, including Native Americans, Target new Oil Pipeline to stop Fossil Fuels
Climate groups and Indigenous nations are working to add the GTN Xpress pipeline expansion to a long list of defeated fossil fuel transportation projects in the Northwest. By Nick Engelfried | – Climate protesters gathered at the State Capitol in Portland, Oregon in 2019 to protest the later canceled Jordan Cove LNG export terminal. (Facebook/Rogue […]
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