29 May, 2024
Donald Trump and the Uses of Violence
Donald Trump and the Uses of Violence by Andrew Moss 896 words In a wide-ranging interview with a Time Magazine reporter this...
29 May, 2024
28 Sep, 2023
Who Needs Nonviolence? Everyone.
Who Needs Nonviolence? Everyone. by Rivera Sun 566 words Done with violence? So are we. October 2nd marks Mahatma Gandhi’s...
27 Jun, 2023
LA Hospitality Workers Take the Cause of Economic Justice to the Streets
LA Hospitality Workers Take the Cause of Economic Justice to the Streets by Andrew Moss 881 words How do you...
24 Apr, 2023
What has to win is life
What has to win is life by Nina Koevoets 1043 words “The choice today is no longer between violence and nonviolence....
12 Jan, 2023
The Way to Nonviolence
More than 60 years ago, as many are aware, civil rights activists began organizing to desegregate businesses in Birmingham, Alabama...
23 Sep, 2022
Casting a discerning eye on political theater
The term “political theater” has taken on some pointedly negative connotations in recent days. When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis flew two planeloads of migrants from San Antonio, Texas to Martha’s Vineyard on September 14, critics condemned the action as “political theater.”
25 Aug, 2022
Sanctions or bombs? Rubles or rubble?
When Hitler invaded Poland, 1 September 1939, the US...did nothing. But the UK and France declared war on Germany.
19 Jul, 2022
Nonviolence is the best antidote to political violence
Aquilino Gonell felt rage. The U.S. Army veteran and 16-year member of the Capitol Police force was listening to Cassidy Hutchinson tell the House Select Commit¬tee to Invest¬ig¬ate the Janu¬ary 6 Attack how Donald Trump had spurred on his followers even though he knew many were armed.
18 Jul, 2022
Practicing safe protest: Just Say No to violence
"Get the f__k out of here!" screamed the young woman. I understood. She was enraged, yelling at a small group of evangelicals with their powerful loudspeaker, at the end of the Pride parade last month.
24 Mar, 2022
The deep connections between democracy and nonviolence
In recent weeks, leaders and commentators here and abroad have rightly framed Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine as a struggle between autocracy and democracy.
7 Mar, 2022
Saving Ukraine, saving lives, saving ourselves
I teach nonviolence. Students ask, so, okay, and just how could Ukraine possibly resist Putin and a brutal invasion using nothing but nonviolence?
30 Dec, 2021
Creativity in Nonviolent Resistance
There is a force in the world that was never considered as a force in our human story until Mohandas Gandhi discovered it 116 years ago, the power of nonviolent resistance.
2 Dec, 2020
Earth to Portland: Dispatch from the Nation’s Problem Child
We live in Portland, Oregon. As almost anyone in our town will tell you...
13 Sep, 2020
Watching Religion Die
“Religion is fading more quickly in the United States than in any other nation, according to a forthcoming research book.”...
19 Mar, 2020
Take Heart! Humans are Amazing
“There are some things you’d can’t fight with the barrel of a gun. Pandemics are one of them. In times...