By Emma Jordan-Simpson | – (Waging Nonviolence ) – In my inbox this morning from a major nonprofit organization that should have known better was a Juneteenth celebratory greeting: “We proudly celebrate Juneteenth, the day slavery finally came to an end throughout the South — historically a monumental feat for American history and now a […]
5 ways to push antisemites and the Alt-Right out of the Palestinian solidarity movement
By Shane Burley | – With support for Palestinian freedom hitting a new level, intentional strategies are needed to stop white nationalists looking to hijack the movement. ( Waging Nonviolence ) – As Israel resumes its bombing of Gaza, and settlers attack Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line — the boundary between what […]
How TikTok Videos are exposing Israeli repression of Palestinian Dissent
By Shahira Tarrash and Craig Brown | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – On the weekend of May 8, TikTok was awash with videos from East Jerusalem, Sheikh Jarrah and the Al-Aqsa compound, where Palestinian worshippers were attacked by Israeli security forces. This was before Hamas’ rockets attracted the focus of European and North American media […]
‘When they take 100 trees, we plant 4,000’ — a conversation with Mubarak Awad on nonviolence in Palestine
By Nonviolence Radio Team | ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Subscribe to “Nonviolence Radio” on Apple Podcasts, Android, Spotify or via RSS. This week, Nonviolence Radio hosts Mubarak Awad, founder of the National Youth Advocate Program, which provides alternative foster care and counseling to “at risk” youth and their families. He is also the founder […]
This time, Palestine Solidarity Swept the U.S.
By Shane Burley | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – In mid-May, hundreds gathered in Terry Schrunk Plaza in downtown Portland, Oregon with signs denouncing the violence that is now crushing the Gaza Strip’s over two million residents. At this storytelling rally, Palestinians — who are so often rendered invisible in discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict […]
Yemeni people are being starved — so this Detroit organizer went on hunger strike in solidarity
By Loretta Graceffo | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – During the early days of the war, when Iman Saleh called her family in Yemen, they would lie to reassure her they were safe. “They would always say, ‘Don’t worry, it’s happening far from us,’” Saleh said. “It felt like I was becoming a burden to […]
How Organizers can fight back against Corporate Greenwashing and Climate ‘Inactivism’
By Selina Gallo-Cruz | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – When communities around the country carried out annual clean-ups and tree-plantings in celebration of a now 51-year old Earth Day, industries, too, lined up to pledge their commitment to “go green.” But the savvy, often subtle deception of these market strategies to promote companies as engaging […]
Amid Chauvin trial and more police killings, we need to stress Boycotts and the ‘Noncooperation’ in ‘Nonviolent Noncooperation’
By Maria J. Stephan | – ( Waging Nonviolence) – In his March 1956 sermon “When Peace Becomes Obnoxious,” Martin Luther King, Jr. responded to a headline in a local Alabama newspaper that read, “Things are quiet in Tuscaloosa today. There is peace on the campus of the University of Alabama.” The headline was referring […]
How Persistent Student Organizing Forced the University of Michigan to Divest from Fossil Fuels
By Jonathan Morris | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – Last month, the University of Michigan became the latest to accept the obvious — that investing in the destruction of society is fundamentally counter to the mission of higher education. With its endowment of $14.2 billion, Michigan now becomes one of the largest public universities […]
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