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wagingnonviolence.org/subscribe/By performing on the largest stage in the US, Bad Bunny joyfully and unapologetically challenges racist ideas of what it means to be “American.”
#SuperBowl2026 #superbowlhalftimeshow
What’s at stake in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance
By performing on the largest stage in the US, Bad Bunny joyfully and unapologetically challenges what it means to be “American.”
The people of Minneapolis and Palestine have both responded to occupation and state terror with extraordinary courage and love.
#iceout
Steadfast resistance under occupation from Minneapolis to Palestine
The people of Minneapolis and Palestine have both responded to occupation and state terror with extraordinary courage and love.
By organizing political tours and sharing testimonies by former IDF soldiers, Breaking the Silence challenges the occupation from the perpetrator’s perspective.
Former IDF soldiers are challenging the normalization of the occupation
With political tours and testimonies by IDF soldiers, Breaking the Silence challenges the occupation from the perpetrator’s perspective.
This is a critical moment to examine how nonviolent resistance generated key shifts on Gaza — and how to apply hard won lessons to the next stage.
Cultivating a ‘just peace’ in Israel and Palestine
This is a critical moment to examine how nonviolent resistance generated key shifts on Gaza — and how to apply hard won lessons to the next stage.
For years I’ve witnessed Braver Angels bridge America’s red-blue divide. At moments like this I feel conflicted — but I still believe in this work.
Why I keep building bridges even when I’m full of doubt
For years I’ve witnessed Braver Angels bridge America’s red-blue divide. At moments like this I feel conflicted — but I still believe in this work.
After joining faith leaders in the streets of Minneapolis, I have no doubt that the disciplined, caring and prayerful response of the people to ICE will win, writes
@arielelysegold.bsky.social.
Faith activists are praying with their feet in Minneapolis
After joining faith leaders in Minneapolis, I have no doubt that the disciplined,caring and prayerful response of the people to ICE will win.
Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.
The two reflexes that are breaking the left
Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.
Co-founder of Nonviolent Peaceforce, Mel Duncan, discusses the shared dynamics of nonviolent resistance and organizing community care in the Twin Cities and West Bank.
Nonviolent protective presence from the Twin Cities to the West Bank
Co-founder of Nonviolent Peaceforce, Mel Duncan, discusses the shared dynamics of nonviolent resistance and organizing community care in the Twin Cities and West Bank.
Inspired by the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes,” here are 10 ways to strip ICE of as many resources as possible — making their work infinitely harder, even impossible.
#ICEOut
10 rules of resistance for #ICEOut
Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.
General strikes can have a tremendous impact, but to succeed they require an organized majority, networks of solidarity and resources to weather repression, writes Daniel Hunter.
#iceout
What’s it going to take to get to mass strikes?
General strikes can have a tremendous impact, but they require an organized majority, solidarity and resources to weather repression.
Despite brutal provocation, the people of Minneapolis have been courageous and remarkably nonviolent, embodying the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolent discipline is helping turn the tide on ICE
Despite brutal provocation, people in Minneapolis have been courageous and remarkably nonviolent, embodying the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.
With the Insurrection Act looming in Minnesota, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond — including the power of ridicule.
What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked in Minnesota
With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond.
A discussion with labor historian Jeremy Brecher on the strategy, potential and challenges of mass social strikes following ICE's murder of Renee Good.
#abolishice
Social strikes are emerging as a defense against ICE and authoritarianism
Labor historian Jeremy Brecher on the strategy, potential and challenges of mass social strikes following ICE's murder of Renee Good.
Patience Nitumwesiga’s new documentary, “The Woman Who Poked The Leopard,” covers the life and resistance of the widely misunderstood Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi.
An intimate look at legendary Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi
Patience Nitumwesiga’s new documentary, “The Woman Who Poked The Leopard,” covers the life and resistance of the Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi.
Visionary scholar and author Riane Eisler discusses what it means to build a world rooted in care, courage, and connection.
How we can shift from systems of domination to cultures of partnership
Visionary scholar and author Riane Eisler discusses what it means to build a world rooted in care, courage, and connection.
After an extreme weather event, climate organizers can seize the opportunity to push for tangible policy change.
How to turn extreme weather tragedies into climate victories
After an extreme weather event, climate organizers can seize the opportunity to push for tangible policy change.
Leaderless uprisings cascaded across 11 countries and shook governments in 2025. Now, Gen Z protesters must find the road to lasting political power.
How Gen Z movements around the globe shared tactics and challenges
Leaderless uprisings cascaded across 11 countries and shook governments in 2025. Now, Gen Z protesters must find the road to lasting political power.
Demanding people “remain calm” after ICE's killing in Minneapolis misses the point — the task is not to extinguish anger, but to channel it in defense of life, writes Daniel Hunter.
Honoring the many responses to Renee Nicole Good’s murder
Demanding “calm” after ICE's killing in Minneapolis is misguided. The task isn't to extinguish anger, but to channel it in defense of life.
With Palestinian history censored by the Israeli occupation, youth programs preserve collective memory through traditional music and dance.
Dance and music are potent forms of cultural defiance in Palestine
With Palestinian history censored by the Israeli occupation, youth programs preserve collective memory through traditional music and dance.
In a year of rapid authoritarian backsliding, Waging Nonviolence empowered readers and lifted up the historic protest movements rising to meet the moment. Check out our most read stories of the year.
Our top stories of 2025
In a year of rapid authoritarian backsliding, Waging Nonviolence uplifted the historic protest movements rising to meet the moment.
In the face of rising authoritarianism, creativity is an enduring movement superpower that helped us break through the stranglehold of fear this year.
Inflatables, rainbow crosswalks, flooding snitch lines — creative action was off the charts in 2025
In the face of rising authoritarianism, creativity is an enduring movement superpower that helped us break through the stranglehold of fear this year.
Frontline communities telling their own stories is essential for holding world leaders accountable to commitments made at COP30.
After COP30, Indigenous narratives are more important than ever
Frontline communities telling their own stories is essential for holding world leaders accountable to commitments made at COP30.
No strangers to the perils of war, Ukrainian activists and journalists are connecting their struggle to Gaza.
Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences
No strangers to the perils of war, Ukrainian activists and journalists are connecting their struggle to Gaza.
Taoist monk and doctor of Chinese medicine John Blue discusses the role of rest, stillness and attentiveness in the work of justice.
Taoism and the inner practice of nonviolence in winter
Taoist monk and doctor of Chinese medicine John Blue discusses the role of rest, stillness and attentiveness in the work of justice.
Genocide in Gaza, raids on immigrants and attacks on DEI have spurred urgent calls to boycott companies like Home Depot, Target, Chevron and Microsoft.
#BoycottAmazon #BoycottMcDonald #BoycottCocaCola #BoycottChevron #BoycottTarget #BoycottHomeDepot
Holiday shoppers are flexing political power through big boycott campaigns
Genocide in Gaza, raids on immigrants and attacks on DEI have spurred calls to boycott companies like Home Depot, Target and Microsoft.
To counter the march toward militarism at home and abroad, we need a movement with a winning message and broad coalition willing to engage in institutional politics.
The American peace movement we need today
To counter the march toward militarism at home and abroad, we need a winning message and broad coalition engaged in institutional politics.
Widespread protests across Germany are a sign that the new military conscription legislation will face fierce noncooperation.
Germans are not falling in line for the new military draft
Widespread protests across Germany are a sign that the new military conscription legislation will face fierce noncooperation.
To build a powerful movement for peace and justice, ordinary people must first understand that we are in an emergency. Jim Douglass's new book “Martyrs to the Unspeakable” makes this crisis clear.
Those in power are terrified of peace
To build a powerful movement for peace and justice, ordinary people must first understand that we are in an emergency.
The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder Myles Horton offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.
Learning from Myles Horton’s legendary career in social movements
The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.
From Kenya to Nepal, Gen Z movements sweeping the globe are joyfully defying authoritarianism with memes, stunts and dance videos.
How memes and humor are fueling Gen Z’s global uprisings
From Kenya to Nepal, Gen Z movements sweeping the globe are joyfully defying authoritarianism with memes, stunts and dance videos.
Veteran organizer Marshall Ganz diagnoses how we hit rock-bottom and identifies where we must go next, pointing to Zohran Mamdani's campaign as a model.
Veteran organizer Marshall Ganz sees a path to power under Trump
The lifelong organizer diagnoses how we hit rock-bottom and identifies where we must go next, citing the Mamdani campaign as a model.
Student activists have already won important victories over Trump’s authoritarian agenda and they’re just getting started.
Inside the student resistance to authoritarianism on campus
Student activists have already won important victories over Trump’s authoritarian agenda and they’re just getting started.
In response to systematic censorship by Meta and other platforms, Palestinians and their allies have built an innovative new playbook of tactics to beat the algorithm.
How the pro-Palestine movement is outsmarting the algorithms
In response to systematic censorship by social media, Palestinians and their allies have built a playbook of tactics to beat the algorithm.
Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
We’re entering a new phase of the resistance
Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
As we approach the holidays, here are eight tips for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.
Let’s agree to stop ‘keeping the peace’ this holiday season
As we approach the holidays, here are eight tools for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.
As the U.S. antiwar movement targets the weapons supply chain enabling the genocide in Gaza, it can learn much from the decades-long struggle against cluster bombs in Minneapolis.
#armsembargonow
A 40-year fight against cluster bombs offers lessons to stop the US-Israel weapons pipeline
The Honeywell Project in Minneapolis showed how to beat a weapons maker: obstruct operations, recruit workers, build camaraderie and persist.
Nonviolent movements that have toppled oppressive regimes, prevented coups and transformed societies follow these four essential steps.
The playbook of every successful nonviolent struggle
Nonviolent movements that have toppled oppressive regimes, prevented coups and transformed societies follow these four essential steps.
Sudanese organizer Mubarak Elamin discusses Sudan’s long history of nonviolent resistance and international complicity.
How international solidarity can help stop Sudan's genocide
Sudanese organizer Mubarak Elamin discusses Sudan’s long history of nonviolent resistance and international complicity.
Drawing inspiration from other Gen Z movements, Peruvians have removed one scandal-plagued president and are now mobilizing against her right-wing successor.
Youth-led protesters ousted Peru’s president, and they’re not done
Drawing inspiration from other Gen Z movements, Peruvians have removed one scandal-plagued president and are now mobilizing against her right-wing successor.
Sanctions are required to get beyond the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, and love is required to transform the immense trauma in Israel that fuels the violence.
Imposing sanctions on Israel with love
Sanctions are required to go beyond the fragile Gaza ceasefire and love is needed to transform the immense trauma fueling Israel's violence.
Organizers can borrow ideas from the business world — such as an influential concept called the “innovator’s dilemma” — about where to look for innovation, and about how our movement ecology can make space for it.
What social movements can learn from the ‘innovator’s dilemma’
Organizers can borrow ideas from the business world about where to look for innovation, and how our movement ecology can make space for it.
Legendary singer and activist Joan Baez discusses the essential role of music in movements, the need to keep our eyes on the prize — and to keep dancing.
'Carry your light out into the shitstorm' — a conversation with Joan Baez
Legendary singer Joan Baez discusses the essential role of music in movements, the need to keep our eyes on the prize and keep dancing.
Jeremy Varon’s new book, “Our Grief is Not a Cry for War,” honors the commitment and complexity of the movements to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lessons from the movement to stop the ‘war on terror’
Jeremy Varon’s new book, “Our Grief is Not a Cry for War,” honors the commitment and complexity of the movements to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Meta Peace Team member Sheila McCarthy discusses how unarmed civilian protection teams offer protective presence, document abuses, and help make it possible for people — especially children — to remain safely on their land.
The power of ‘protective presence’ in Palestine
Meta Peace Team member Sheila McCarthy discusses how unarmed civilian protection teams help Palestinians remain safely on their land.
After a decades-long struggle to stay on their land, the Palestinian community of Umm al-Khair is committed to resisting new final demolition orders. They are also calling for urgent solidarity and action from the international community to stop the demolitions.
Facing imminent demolition orders, a West Bank village calls for international support
After a decades-long struggle to stay on their land, the Palestinian community of Umm al-Khair is resisting final demolition orders.
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Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their recent boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza.
Dockerworker strikes in solidarity with Gaza have a long legacy
Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza.
As other climate campaigns go on the defensive, a new Third Act campaign aims to remove local and state-level barriers to solar energy.
#sunday2025
With federal climate progress stalled, Simplify Solar advances local solutions
As other climate campaigns go on the defensive, a new Third Act campaign aims to remove local and state-level barriers to solar energy.
Amid a major rift in Your Party, Britain's new left political party, the climate movement is fighting for a democratic revolution rooted in local assemblies.
Inside the fight for radical democracy in Britain’s new left party
Amid a major rift in Your Party, the British climate movement is fighting for a democratic revolution rooted in local assemblies.
We just witnessed the largest protest in US history, but this is just the start. There are now growing signs of defections and noncooperation, which will be key to reclaiming our democracy.
#NoKings
What’s next after the historic No Kings protest?
We just witnessed the largest protest in US history, but this is just the start. There are growing signs of defections and noncooperation.
By providing a “protective presence” in the West Bank, international activists hope to deter unprecedented settler attacks.
International activists confront Israeli impunity in the West Bank
By providing a “protective presence” in the West Bank, international activists hope to deter unprecedented settler attacks.
