Waging Nonviolence

07/31/2025

Palestine solidarity organizations in New Jersey launched the latest expression of what has become a growing national campaign to halt investments in Israel Bonds.

Palestine solidarity organizations in New Jersey launched the latest expression of a growing national campaign to divest from Israel Bonds.

07/28/2025

Erin Axelrod of the worker-owned cooperative LIFT Economy on practicing a vision of nonviolent economics.

07/25/2025

Fantasy worlds like Harry Potter and Star Wars help us understand that the ending we hope for depends on how we show up in the uncertain middle chapters.

Fantasy worlds like Harry Potter help us understand that the ending we hope for depends on how we show up in the uncertain middle chapters.

07/24/2025

Women peacebuilders deserve funding for their efforts, protection against violence and to have their alternative visions of peace taken seriously.

Women peacebuilders deserve funding, protection against violence and to have their alternative visions of peace taken seriously.

07/23/2025

In Lightiser v. Trump, 22 young people are using the protections of the Constitution to demand a livable future.

In Lightiser v. Trump, 22 young people are using the protections of the Constitution to demand a livable future.

07/18/2025

The Campaign Nonviolence 2025 calls-to-action engage people in powerful interventions to the violence we see in our world right now.

07/18/2025

There’s an easy way to tell when the idea of what is politically possible — sometimes called the Overton Window — is changing. It’s happening when you see politicians and thinkers on both the left and the right starting to agree on something. Right now, there is new agreement about making it easier to build projects. 

Whether it’s Ezra Klein’s “abundance agenda” or tech-fueled ideas like DOGE and its northern copycat, the Build Canada project, there is growing alignment around the need to remove regulations and so-called “red tape” from our governments. And those in power are starting to listen — just take a look at the past few months in Canada, where politicians from across the political spectrum have passed legislation following this emerging alignment.

Although slightly different in scope and scale, each bill (from the national to the regional level) follows the two-part question at the core of “Abundance,” Klein’s new bestseller: “What do we need more of, and what is stopping us from getting it?”

Unfortunately for people and the planet, too many Canadian politicians believe the answer to the first equation is more mines and pipelines. To the question about what’s stopping us from getting them, their answer is: communities, Indigenous peoples and environmental regulations meant to protect clean air, clean water and endangered species.

And yet, despite the extractive ideals driving this spate of legislation, these politicians aren’t necessarily wrong about our need to build things fast. When it comes to desperately needed infrastructure like affordable housing, public transit and clean energy, we are moving way too slow. That’s the very idea behind the Green New Deal and a “wartime” climate mobilization: We need more and we need it fast. Right now, politicians and the public are opening the door to just that, the question is: Can movements barge through and take over?

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Story: Cam Fenton
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07/17/2025

With smart strategy, organizing and action, movements can harness the momentum to build things faster and ensure it serves the public — not just billionaires.

Politicians want to make it easier to build things. Movements can help ensure this process serves the public — not billionaires.

07/16/2025

Canticle Farm co-founder and Anne Symens-Bucher on grief, forgiveness and the wisdom of environmental activist Joanna Macy.

07/15/2025

After decades of armed struggle, the PKK is laying down its weapons and beginning a new nonviolent chapter in the Kurdish independence movement.

After decades of armed struggle, the PKK is laying down its weapons and beginning a new nonviolent chapter in the Kurdish movement.

07/11/2025

As provocateurs try to discredit protests, having civilians trained in the skills of de-escalation gives people power a greater chance of success.

As provocateurs try to discredit protests, having civilians trained in de-escalation gives people power a greater chance of success.

07/11/2025

Ash Bohrer sat in a wheelchair outside of the Chicago Federal Plaza, where they had been arrested for refusing to leave Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s office hours earlier — and where six Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago organizers had launched a hunger strike for Gaza 18 days prior. Reflecting on the highlights to that point, Bohrer, a JVP-Chicago organizer and Notre Dame peace studies professor, said it wasn’t the teach-ins, solidarity demonstrations or political wins that came to mind first, but a message they received from a mother in Gaza named Alaa. 

“When someone in Chicago chooses to face hunger willingly that is not ordinary solidarity,” she wrote. “It is a profound act of pure humanity.”

For Alaa, her three children and 2.1 million Gazans living in constant danger of Israeli bombs, starvation is the other grave threat. On March 2, Israel blocked all aid, including food and baby formula, from entering Gaza. In May, the World Health Organization stated that the entire population of Gaza faces prolonged food shortages and 500,000 people are battling catastrophic hunger.

“Hunger here is not a choice or a political stance,” Alaa’s message read. “Hunger here is a decision made against us.” She wanted the hunger strikers to know, “from the heart of this catastrophe, I say: We see you, we feel you, and your actions reach us even when the borders remain closed.”

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Story: Joseph Mogul

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