These six global struggles show the power of nonviolence in action
Feb 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.
Lessons from what Cesar Chavez did right — and wrong
Apr 7, 2014 · Cesar Chavez on strike. (Flickr/Jay Galvin) The recent release of Cesar Chavez: An American Hero, and the premiere of the documentary Cesar’s Last Fast at the Sundace Film Festival, give us new opportunities to reflect on the lessons of Chavez’s life of activism. While his charismatic leadership turned him into a powerful force for justice, an unyielding grip on his position of authority ...
Gandhi’s strategy for success — use more than one strategy
Mar 17, 2017 · Gandhi’s strategy for success — use more than one strategy. How creating a healthy “ecology of change,” as Gandhi did in India, can help propel social movements. At the end of 1930, India was experiencing disruption on a scale not seen in nearly three quarters of a century — and it was witnessing a level of social movement ...
How anti-Vietnam War protests thwarted Nixon’s plans and saved …
Nov 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 ...
As students go back to school, staff strike for better pay and ...
Aug 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 a five-day strike demanding ...
3 years after the first global school strike, signs of the youth ...
Mar 17, 2022 · Embed from Getty Images. Three years ago this week — on March 15, 2019 — an estimated 1.4 million young people and supporters in 128 countries skipped school or work for what was then the largest youth-led day of climate protests in history.
It's not just 'coal country' | Waging Nonviolence
Nov 8, 2019 · Wilkerson studies women’s history, particularly the role women have played in social movements in the south and Appalachia. These stories, she has found, shed light on the many myths of “coal country,” including the assumptions that Appalachia is exclusively white and staunchly conservative. In her recently-released book, “To Live Here ...
How 1971’s Mayday actions rattled Nixon and helped keep …
Apr 29, 2021 · During one remarkable two week period — from April 19 to May 5, 1971 — more than a half-million citizens descended on the nation’s capital for the largest anti-Vietnam War rally, staging sit-ins that clogged entrances to several government agencies, camping out in a park where they put on a rock concert, and blocking streets and bridges that nearly shut down the city.
A people’s guide to stopping the war in Ukraine
Mar 24, 2022 · A people’s guide to stopping the war in Ukraine. Here are 20 concrete actions each of us can take to support peace and relief efforts in Ukraine, and strike at the root causes of war. Illustrations by Anastasiya Samarkina from Odessa. War is usually considered the domain of presidents, kings and generals, fought for reasons of sovereignty ...
Why Martin Luther King’s pledge of nonviolence matters today
Jan 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.