Posts Tagged ‘nonviolent’

Nonviolent Jousting With Northrop Grumman

Above photo: The Air Force awarded the contract for the long range strike-bomber to Northrop Grumman. AP File Photo/Wong Maye-E. “Now look, your grace,” said Sancho, “what you see over there aren’t giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone.” […]

What’s Happening With Nonviolent Cities?

Above Photo: Rev. Carolyn Morton and friends hold up peace banner, 2019. (Nonviolent Opelika/Rev. Carolyn Morton) The Nonviolent Cities Project is uniting communities around the country working to bring nonviolence to schools, buses, and everyone in their neighborhoods. What an exciting time for the Nonviolent Cities Project! For years, Pace e Bene has fostered the vision […]

Applying Nonviolent Noncooperation

I suppose I could have titled this writing Applying Nonviolent Noncooperation to Pernicious Consumerism, or to Malignant Normalcy.  Notwithstanding, here are my thoughts…. For as long as it remains profitable NOT to find or accept solutions to planetary problems, those who possess economic and political power will not allow solutions.  Looked at from another side, […]

Poor People’s Campaign announces ‘season of nonviolent direct action’ targeting US Senate

Demonstrators gather for the Moral March on Manchin and McConnell, a rally held by the Poor People’s Campaign, outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on June 23, 2021. (Photo: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) The Poor People’s Campaign announced Monday that over the next several weeks, it will hold a series of nonviolent […]

Nonviolent Protest Over Voting Rights Ends With Arrests In DC

Above Photo: Poor People’s Campaign/Twitter. ‘We’re Not Going Away!’ “We’re saying across this country, it’s time for people… to march on these Senate offices,” declared Rev. William Barber. Activists with the national Poor People’s Campaign were arrested Wednesday after blocking a street in front of the Hart Senate building in Washington, D.C. to demand passage […]

Let’s Reject The Violent Vs. Nonviolent Crime Dichotomy

By Kassandra Frederique and Danielle Sered, Truthout. January 14, 2021 Above photo: Denver Police officers watch over the crowd at Civic Center Park on July 19, 2020, in Denver, Colorado. Helen H. Richardson/Media News Group/ The Denver Post via Getty Images. End the War on Drugs. November’s election saw criminal legal system and drug policy reform […]

A New Nonviolent Medicaid Army Is On The March

At the start of Tuesday’s unhinged presidential debate — as the pandemic continued to rage outside the walls of Case Western University — the American people were offered an anemic vision for promoting and expanding public health. In the shadow of more than 200,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus, viewers heard pushback on the use of masks, […]

Israel’s ‘murderous assault on nonviolent protesters’ in Gaza – an interview with Norman Finkelstein

     The Real News’s Aaron Maté. discusses the March of Return protests with Norman Finkelstein, author of many books, including his latest, Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom. Norman Finkelstein says that while Palestinian protesters in Gaza have bravely resisted their ghettoization under merciless Israeli fire, international solidarity is falling short With the final demonstrations […]

A US Ally Is Literally Beheading People Over Nonviolent Drug Charges

By Carey Wedler Saudi Arabia, the United States’ main ally in the Middle East, has executed 48 people so far this year, half of them over nonviolent drug charges, Human Rights Watch reported this week. “Many more people convicted of drug crimes remain on death row following convictions by Saudi Arabia’s notoriously unfair criminal justice […]

West Bank village Bil’in marks 13th anniversary of nonviolent resistance against the Wall

VIDEO: Bil‘in marks 13th anniversary of nonviolent resistance against the Wall, colonies IMEMC 2 Mar — Video by Haitham Khatib — On Friday, dozens of Palestinians, accompanied by Israeli and international peace activists, marched in Bil‘in village, west of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, marking the 13th anniversary of ongoing popular nonviolent resistance […]

Why Training Women In Nonviolent Resistance Is Critical To Movement Success

Why Training Women In Nonviolent Resistance Is Critical To Movement Success Above Photo: Getty Images In the year since Trump’s inauguration, we have seen an outpouring of popular mobilization in resistance to his administration’s policies. Crowd estimates suggest that 5.2-9 million people took to the streets in the United States to protest Trump’s policies or points of view […]

‘His bone turned to sand’ — Murad Shteiwi describes IDF shootings at nonviolent protests in Kufr Qaddum

Murad Shteiwi does not flinch as he watches a video of his son moments after an Israeli soldier shot him two years ago. The short clip shows Khalid Shteiwi who was 11 years old at the time. He is on the ground, trying to move away from the Israeli army as they continue to fire near […]

Only Nonviolent Resistance Will Destroy the Corporate State

Only Nonviolent Resistance Will Destroy Corporate State

Above Photo: The Oceti Sakowin camp, near the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, in November 2016. (Becker1999 / Flickr) The encampments by Native Americans at Standing Rock, N.D., from April 2016 to February 2017 to block construction of the Dakota Access pipeline provided the template for future resistance movements. The action was nonviolent. It was sustained. It was […]

More Than 900 Nonviolent Actions Planned For Sept. 16-24

Above Photo: From paceebene.org   Campaign Nonviolence is a long-term grassroots movement for a culture of peace and nonviolence free from war, poverty, racism, environmental destruction and the epidemic of violence. We invite people and organizations in the U.S. and worldwide to take action during CNV Action Week around the International Day of Peace, September 21. […]

US Independence Won By Nonviolent Resistance Before The War

Above: Colonists Tear Down Statute of King George. Note: There is much more to the story of the campaign for independence of the United States than the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence. There was a decade of resistance campaigns before 1776 that involved common people who have not shared historical recognition. In this period, […]

Chris Hedges = The Rules of (NONVIOLENT) Revolt

Click for Source Article by Chris Hedges on Truth-Out #1 Nonviolent disruption of the machinery of state = Terrified Authority suppresses with power MOVES by ZIO-MOB ruling elitists & their MSM to create an EVEN GREATER BACKLASH #2 Uprising & Revolution is usually ignited by the middle-class often college-educated (DEBT SLAVES) being denied opportunities to […]

Video Shows Resource Officer Choke, Body-Slam, Tase Nonviolent Teen

(Police State Daily) Confirming a clear pattern of abuse at Woodland Hills High School in Pittsburgh, a new video shows a nonviolent teen being brutalized by a resource officer. Released by attorney Todd Hollis, the footage shows the 15-year-old student being placed in a headlock before being body-slammed and repeatedly tased by officer Steve Shaulis on March 3, 2015. The teen was reportedly asked […]

Never give up: nonviolent civilian resistance, healing and active hope in the Holy Land

Introduction by Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb Sami Awad and Yoav Litvin are two men whose lives have been deeply impacted by the events of 1948 and 1967 when Palestinians were collectively driven from their homes and villages in order to make room for Jewish settlement. The Israeli Occupation of Palestine is ongoing; Israeli policies that resulted […]

International Collaboration to End Violence:’ “People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World”

Four Marines Charged in Depraved Water-Boarding Ceremony

Michaela Whitton (AM) : Three Royal Marines have been jailed for their roles in a twisted initiation ceremony that left a colleague suicidal and forced him to endure “40 minutes of depravity and naked humiliation.” A fourth was sentenced to unpaid community work for battery and disgraceful conduct during the ‘joining run’ initiation event in […]

Psychological warfare: Society for Psychotherapy Research shills for Israeli occupation

A few months ago, I learned from my colleagues at the UK Palestine Mental Health Network (UKPMHN) that the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) intends to hold its annual conference in Jerusalem in June. Visiting the SPR’s microsite about the event, I read Jerusalem described as ‘a city suspended between heaven and earth, East and […]

Palestinian fugitive is killed inside Palestinian embassy in Bulgaria; family calls it ‘assassination’

Violence / Detentions — West Bank / Jerusalem Palestinian on run from Israel ‘assassinated’ in Bulgaria BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 26 Feb — Escaped Palestinian prisoner Omar al-Nayif was found dead inside the headquarters of the Palestinian embassy in Bulgaria [Sofia] Friday, in what senior Palestinian officials and his family have said was an “assassination” carried out […]

California anti-gun senator Leland Yee to be sentenced for gun trafficking and racketeering charges

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FBI Says Encryption Preventing It from Solving San Bernardino Shooting

The FBI says its investigation into the San Bernardino shooting has been stymied by encryption. In addition to not finding a computer hard drive allegedly used by the suspects, the FBI cannot break the encryption code protecting two cell phones, according to David Bowdich, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Los Angeles […]

New study confirms: Fracking wastewater is cancer-causing

     The fracking industry likes to call its product “natural gas,” but the natural consequence of its activity is the production of billions of gallons of cancer-causing wastewater. A new study published in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology titled, “Malignant human cell transformation of Marcellus Shale gas drilling flow back water,” is the first study of […]

Check Out What Facebook Is Doing To Your Brain. It Will Shock You

Social media has become a gateway for socializing in the digital world. A way for people to catch up with old school chums or maybe old flames. It has also become detrimental for some.Social media is a place where some people collect friends, as one would collect coins or stamps. Each friend obtained is some […]

Constant Lockdowns Lead Schools to Buy Portable Toilets

Constant Lockdowns Lead Schools to Buy Portable Toilets November 11th, 2015 Via: San Diego Union Tribune: Shortly after San Diego schools kicked off the new year in September, 21,000 students at 11 campuses were locked in classrooms for up to three hours following a […]

WikiLeaks publishes CIA chief’s hacked emails

RELEASE: CIA Director John Brennan emails https://t.co/GC22CxkRkV#CIAemailspic.twitter.com/XdjkVPS5GW— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 21, 2015 Although the hacked emails are from Brennan’s “non-government” accounts, he occasionally used the address for several intelligence related projects, according to WikiLeaks. The leaked papers include alleged drafts containing discussions about “challenges for the US Intelligence Community in a post […]

I’m Free(r)! But for How Long? What’s Next and What I’ve Learned…

On Friday night I was arrested by the Shawnee, KS police for a “felony warrant” out of Indiana – though they first claimed it was Montana (which I haven’t been to in over 5 years). I figured that the warrant was from Noblesville (IN) and directly related to our chalking of the police department our first night […]

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