Protesters target AIG for insuring the fossil fuel industry on July 26. (Summer of Heat/Luigi W. Morris) By Alice Hu / Waging Nonviolence With millions being displaced by wildfires and floods, famine spreading and entire countries getting submerged, the fossil fuel industry is driving us off the cliff and must be stopped. One strategy the […]
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We Can Safeguard Democracy Without Giving in to Fear and More Policing
A Nonviolent Peaceforce member during the 2021 Daunte Wright protests. (Nonviolent Peaceforce) By Claire Guinta and Kalaya’an Mendoza / Waging Nonviolence Elections are flashpoints for political violence. Across the country, voter intimidation and related threats have spiked in recent cycles. In one particularly extreme case — in the battleground state of Arizona — one voter was reportedly approached and […]
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The Obsolescence of War
By Nadia Mejjati / Waging Nonviolence The proponents of war say that violence is necessary for “defense.” But is that true? Humanity has learned how to wipe itself out in a matter of minutes with just a fraction of its nuclear weapons capability. Our atrocious culture of violence shows thousands of children killed in cold blood […]
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How Democratizing Universities Would Supercharge the Pro-Palestine Divestment Movement
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Should Children Take Part in Nonviolent Struggle?
Children at the Climate Strike in New York City on September 20, 2019. (UN Women/Amanda Voisard) By George Lakey / Waging Nonviolence In fifth grade I was introduced to children as nonviolent warriors. In one of our elementary school’s story collections I ran into a tale from the Norwegian resistance to Nazi German occupation during […]
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We Can Safeguard Democracy Without Giving in to Fear and More Policing
A member of DC Peace Team during a Black Lives Matter protest in 2020. (Facebook/DC Peace Team) By Claire Guinta and Kalaya’an Mendoza / Waging Nonviolence Elections are flashpoints for political violence. Across the country, voter intimidation and related threats have spiked in recent cycles. In one particularly extreme case — in the battleground state of Arizona — […]
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Carrying on Kent State’s Legacy of Antiwar Organizing, Students Press for Divestment
Over 350 protesters gathered to protest the Kent State’s investments in weapons manufacturing, and to show solidarity with Palestine and student protesters across the country. (WNV/Eman Abu-Khaled) By Camille Tinnin and Magdalen Weiss-Vopat / Waging Nonviolence If you grew up in Ohio, one of the first things that comes to mind when you hear “Kent State” is […]
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45 Years After Three Mile Island, We Need a ‘No Nukes’ Comeback
By Arnie Alpert / Waging Nonviolence When a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania went from a technological miracle to a pile of radioactive rubble in a matter of moments in 1979, the Portsmouth, New Hampshire office of the Clamshell Alliance became a hive of activity. I was working there at the time, […]