How activists are making the right to housing a reality
WEBFran Quigley October 7, 2022. Housing activists blocked the street outside the court in Brooklyn to extend the eviction moratorium in August 2021. (WNV/Eric Stoner) Apryl Lewis is in a housing fight — again. This time, she is pushing to keep dozens of families from being put out of a Charlotte extended-stay motel that is scheduled to be shut ...
How draft resistance helped end the Vietnam War
WEBOct 12, 2021 · Robert Levering comes to Nonviolence Radio this week to talk to Stephanie Van Hook and Michael Nagler about the film “The Boys Who Said No!” and the powerful draft resistance movement that helped end the Vietnam War. Robert is an executive producer of the film, a position he is well suited to as he …
How anti-Vietnam War protests thwarted Nixon’s plans and saved …
WEBNov 12, 2019 · On Oct.15, 1969, more than two million citizens took part in the Moratorium — a one-day national strike against the war. In hundreds of cities, towns and campuses throughout the country, people from all walks of life took the day off to march, rally, vigil or engage in teach-ins. Until the Women’s March of 2017, the Moratorium held the ...
The successes and failures of South Africa’s student movement
WEBJun 29, 2017 · The "Fees Must Fall" movement that rocked South Africa last year is not over, as students demand a complete transformation of the education system. South Africans were not surprised by the emergence of the “Zuma Must Fall!” call which manifested in huge protests in April and May 2017. We are accustomed to protest at many levels, from the ...
As students go back to school, staff strike for better pay and ...
WEBAug 25, 2022 · As students across the country return to their classrooms for the 2022-2023 academic year, teachers and other employees have been raising the alarm over widespread staffing shortages, low pay, safety concerns and unfair contracts. On Monday, over 500 staff members at American University in Washington, D.C. kicked off …
Defining constructive resistance | Resistance Studies
WEBMay 29, 2019 · I suggest a broad definition which says that constructive resistance occurs when people start to build the society they desire independently of structures of power. They can act alone, but usually constructive resistance is carried out by groups. In order to be considered “constructive resistance,” they necessarily have to be both ...
These six global struggles show the power of nonviolence in action
WEBFeb 3, 2021 · Embed from Getty Images. In today’s media world — especially if you live inside the U.S. media bubble — if you hear news about foreign countries, it tends to be about business, political leaders, wars or disasters.
In the face of assassinations and paramilitary terror, the Zapatista ...
WEBAug 2, 2021 · Chiapas, a state in southeastern Mexico bordering Guatemala, was the epicenter of the 1994 Zapatista uprising. On Jan. 1,1994 — the effective date of the North American Free Trade Agreement — the insurgents of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, or EZLN, seized five county towns in the state at dawn, declaring a struggle for “work, land, shelter, food, health, education ...
The Plowshares Eight: Thirty Years On - Waging Nonviolence
WEBSep 9, 2010 · While commemorating thirty years of resistance to nuclear weapons at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, TN, this past July, John Schuchardt reflected upon the first days of the Plowshares 8, “We would never be thinking about starting a [Plowshares] movement,” he said. “This was a humble, simple human action by a …
Why Martin Luther King’s pledge of nonviolence matters today
WEBJan 18, 2016 · Bill Hudson’s image of Parker High School student Walter Gadsden being attacked by dogs in Birmingham, Alabama was published in The New York Times on May 4, 1963. (Wikipedia) Alycee Lane believes that the same spirit that guided Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work can be awakened within us.
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