Tag: peaceful protests
Violence de-escalation trainings are key to making movements stronger
Having civilians trained in the skills of de-escalation gives people power a greater chance of success.
This new tool can help movements chart a path to victory
As those who understand that strategic nonviolence is, both statistically and morally, the most effective means of resistance, we must take responsibility and exercise great care in its implementation.
American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating
We do know that protests against ICE raids have been intensifying around the country for months, alongside protests opposing perceived power-grabs by the Trump administration.
Could we be entering a ‘movement moment’ against Trump?
Know the characteristics of powerful whirlwinds of protest against injustice and tyranny.
Can nonviolent struggle defeat a dictator? This database emphatically says yes
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
Thousands protest GOP agenda at Milwaukee RNC, demanding justice and equality
Protesters condemned U.S. politicians on both sides of the aisle for sending weapons to Israel amid what they described as genocide in Gaza.
Should children take part in nonviolent struggle?
Children have the most to gain from victories over racism, heterosexism and climate-wrecking capitalism.
Reflections on student activism
The commitment of this generation of student activists will reverberate through the progressive movement for years to come.
‘Stop weaponizing antisemitism’: Police ‘body-slam’ Jewish Dartmouth prof. at campus Gaza...
This comes as more than 50 chapters of the American Association of University Professors have issued a statement condemning the violent arrests by police at campus protests.
As peace protests are violently suppressed, CNN paints them as hate...
Some in corporate media very clearly took sides, portraying student protesters as violent, hateful and/or stupid.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.