What’s the Secret to Success for Nonviolent Movements? Try Solidarity Rivera Sun, Non-Violence News, Dec. 5, 2019 https://wagingnonviolence.org/metta/2019/12/whats-the-secret-to-success-for-nonviolent-movements-try-solidarity/ There’s a secret to success for nonviolent movements for change: solidarity. Instead of “going it alone,” movements can amplify their message, leverage collective power, and build strength by seeking solidarity from aligned organizations and groups. Movements can […]
Saul from 2011: Vast Societal Changes are Occurring all Across the Planet
As I continue to research the value of a positive outlook – which I pooh-poohed for decades – I came across a very interesting analysis from Saul of the disappearance of the deep state without the need to punish them. I reproduce that here: Saul, Feb. 22, 2011, at http://johnsmallman.wordpress.com As you wait expectantly for […]
Land Returned to Native Tribes
Two stories on the return of land to native tribes. At Long Last, Smallest Native Californian Tribe Has Land To Call Their Own Andy Corbley, Good News Network, Dec. 22, 2019 https://tinyurl.com/u4zt6p6 Although the history of Native American indigenous peoples have unquestionably been filled with hardship, the Esselen Tribe in California—maybe the smallest native tribe […]
Pots-and-Pans Protests Raise a Racket for Justice
Pots-and-Pans Protests Raise a Racket for Justice Non-Violence News, December 8, 2019 http://www.nonviolencenews.org/2019/12/08/pots-and-pans-protests/ Editor’s Note from Rivera Sun Nonviolence comes in thousands of shapes and sizes. It’s a force, a field of potential, a method of making change, even a way of life. While this week’s headline celebrates the Latin America-wide cacerolazo (pots-and-pans protest), I’m also uplifting […]
Mass Protests Erupt Around the World. What Are People Striving For?
Remarkable synopsis from Oct. 2019. But first a note from Matthew Ward: “It is immensely heartening that most of you are seeing the positive perspective of situations that the media are reporting with bleak overtones, such as the potential economic meltdown in the ‘Eurozone’ and the global boomerang effect, upheaval in several governments creating national […]
Our Greatest Challenge
The forces that oppose global peace, unity, and harmony fall into three types. The first type is the deep state, which chose decades ago to precipitate World War III, reduce the population to a docile 500 million slaves, and assume full-spectrum dominance over the planet. (1) The second is the authoritarian culture which enforces a […]
The Ground is Being Prepared for the Reval
What is the background against which the Reval is unfolding? What is the view from the vantage point of the Company of Heaven? Blossom’s sources in the Galactic Federation of Light assured us in mid-summer 2019 that rapid change will begin happening soon. It has already begun. “Things will not be proceeding as normal, Blossom. […]
Alabama Unveils Statue of Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks
Alabama unveils statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks Seattle Times/Associated Press, Dec. 1, 2019 https://tinyurl.com/rt67h4s MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A new statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was dedicated in Alabama’s capital city on Sunday, the 64th anniversary of her historic refusal to give up her seat on a public bus to a […]
China’s Secret ‘Brainwashing’ Camps
Data leak reveals how China ‘brainwashes’ Uighurs in prison camps BBC.com, Nov. 24, 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50511063 Leaked documents detail for the first time China’s systematic brainwashing of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in a network of high-security prison camps. The Chinese government has consistently claimed the camps in the far western Xinjiang region offer voluntary education […]
Russian Domestic Violence: Women Fight Back
Russian domestic violence: Women fight back Lucy Ash, BBC News, Nov. 21, 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50493758 Two years ago, many Russians were shocked when the parliament significantly reduced penalties for domestic violence. Since then, women have been fighting back – demanding new legislation to restrain abusers, demonstrating in support of three sisters who took the law into […]
Hong Kong Elections: Pro-democracy Groups Makes Big Gains
Hong Kong elections: Pro-democracy groups makes big gains BBC.com, Nov. 24, 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50531408 Hong Kong’s opposition pro-democracy movement has made unprecedented gains in the Chinese territory’s district council elections, early results show. According to local media counts, 17 of the 18 councils are now controlled by pro-democracy councillors. Despite fears the vote could be disrupted […]
The Countries Hit by Major Protests in 2019
The countries hit by major protests in 2019 Gabriel Power, The Week, Nov 19, 2019 https://www.theweek.co.uk/104416/the-countries-hit-by-major-protests-in-2019 Millions have taken to the streets across the globe this year demanding change From the students occupying university buildings in Hong Kong to activists overthrowing a 30-year dictatorship in Sudan, 2019 has seen a resurgence in the use of […]
Femicide: Big Rallies across France to Condemn Domestic Violence
Femicide: Big rallies across France to condemn domestic violence BBC.com, Nov. 23, 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50531213 Marches have been held in dozens of French cities to condemn femicide and other forms of gender-based violence. Using the hashtag #NousToutes (All of Us), protesters accuse the authorities of turning a blind eye to the problem. Measures to tackle domestic […]
Assange Rape Case DROPPED: Sweden Abandons Probe That Led to His Asylum in UK
Assange Rape Case DROPPED: Sweden Abandons Probe That Led to His Asylum in UK Stillness in the Storm, 11/20/2019 https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2019/11/assange-rape-case-dropped-sweden-abandons-probe-that-led-to-his-asylum-in-uk/ (RT) Swedish prosecutors will not pursue their rape investigation of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange any further, they announced, having successfully fulfilled their role in the years-long scheme to put Assange behind bars. Investigators determined the […]
Our Finest Hour
Winston Churchill hoped that the staunch defiance of the British people going into the Battle of Britain in World War II would be “their finest hour.” We too face a coming storm – although we’re not going into battle. Quite the contrary. Our finest hour would see us healing the wounds of nations and peoples […]
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