Today marks both the Intl Day of Nonviolence and the last day of Action Days. We're awed by the creativity, love, and powerful community-building of the 5,640 actions registered this year! paceebene.org/action-days #paceebene #campaignnonviolence #actiondays2025 #internationaldayofnonviolence

Action Days 2025 is in full swing, with action reports and photos pouring in from 5,630+ protests, teach-ins, creative and artistic projects, and more! Get a more detailed look at our blog: paceebene.org/blog #paceebene #campaignnonviolence #actiondays2025 #principlednonviolence #livepeace #endwar

We continue to celebrate the 5,637+ inspiring actions taking place for Campaign Nonviolence Action Days. You can read reports from some of these at our blog: paceebene.org/blog #paceebene #campaignnonviolence #actiondays2025 #principlednonviolence

This Action Days, we're seeing protests, installations, fairs, and so much more. Check out some of the more than 5,600 actions happening globally: paceebene.org/blog #actiondays2025 #paceebene #campaignnonviolence #principlednonviolence #InternationalDayOfPeace #InternationalDayofNonviolence

We're blown away by the scale, creativity, and variety of events taking place during Action Days! Check out some more of the incredible organizing that's happening around the country and around the world: paceebene.org/blog

Action Days 2025 is off to a fabulous start! We're already getting reports from some of the 5,625+ actions happening globally this week; keep an eye on our social media and our blog (linked below) as the inspiring stories roll in. paceebene.org/blog

Over 10,000 people marched to #FreeDC and end the federal occupation of our nation’s capitol...In Chicago, tens of thousands flooded the streets in one of the city’s biggest-ever marches, saying loudly and clearly: No Trump, No Troops." Read more at #RiseandShine: paceebene.org/blog/2025/9/...

@riverasun.bsky.social spoke with Clearing the FOG about the power of nonviolence, the growing interest in how to practice it, and the global shift to build a more peaceful society. Listen to the episode at: popularresistance.org/global-days-... #actiondays2025 #resist #nonviolentresistance

Happy International Day of Peace! Today, we're also celebrating the kickoff of Action Days 2025 🥳 Our final call to action this year is Nonviolence Teach-Ins. Check out some of these incredible educational programming groups are organizing from India, to Malawi, to Istanbul!

"Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, and every minute a chance to change the world." - Dolores Huerta Sign up to get these quotes by email! paceebene.org/this-nonviol... #paceebene #thisnonviolentlife #dailyquote #dailyinspiration #doloreshuerta

Another of our calls to action this Action Days is Nonviolence Toward the Earth; here are just a few of the groups organizing! @350.org @world-beyond-war.bsky.social #climatefilmfestival #sistersofsaintjoseph #campaignnonviolence #nonviolencetowardtheearth #actiondays2025

"We know from the research of @mariajstephan.bsky.social and @chenoweth.bsky.social that nonviolent struggles are not only twice as likely to succeed as armed campaigns, they’re also more likely to lead to democratic outcomes" paceebene.org/blog/2025/9/... #riseandshine #nonviolentresistance

"Instead of automatic and widespread compliance with [the] coup attempt, we’re seeing growing numbers of people across the United States, along with the governors, mayors, legislators, etc. acting in open defiance of White House edicts." Catch up on Nonviolence News: paceebene.org/blog/2025/8/...

Check out some of the groups planning actions around Nonviolence Toward Others, one of our calls to action this Action Days! To find an action in your area, or register a new one, head to paceebene.org/cnv-actions-... @sandyhookpromise.bsky.social @nuclearban.bsky.social 1/2

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war." - Thomas Merton Sign up below to receive these daily quotes in your inbox! paceebene.org/this-nonviol... #paceebene #thisnonviolentlife #dailyquote #dailyinspiration #thomasmerton

"If you’ve been wondering how to resist authoritarianism, the answer is...with love and creativity." It's time to Rise and Shine! Join the 525+ people getting this inspiring newsletter right to their inboxes. paceebene.org/blog/2025/8/... #riseandshine #nonviolentresistance #everyoneiswelcomehere

Take a look through Nonviolence News for more than a hundred stories of resistance, solidarity, and creative action! paceebene.org/blog/2025/8/... #nonviolencenews #paceebene #campaignnonviolence

We're so excited for Action Days 2025! Here are just a few of the incredible groups planning actions around Nonviolence Toward the World. We now have more than 5,550 actions registered! To find one in your area, or register one yourself, head to paceebene.org/cnv-actions-... 1/2

Our number of registered actions for Action Days 2025 has officially passed 5,530! 🥳 We're still more than a week out from Action Days, so it's not too late to sign up for an event near you, or register your own! To get involved, check out our Action Days page: paceebene.org/action-days

"Authoritarians rely on keeping us immobilized with fear, passive in the face of cruelty, or silenced by hate. But every time we flip into courage, kindness, and love, we deny authoritarianism some of its power." 4 stories that illustrate this: paceebene.org/blog/2025/8/...

Taking a closer look at our Action Days 2025 calls to action: here are just a few of the incredible groups planning actions around Nonviolence Toward Self. 🧵1/3

"Community is where burdens find shoulders, and dreams rise on the wings of many. It is the soil where justice grows, the fire that kindles courage, the light that guides us forward." - Black Lives Matter Sign up for the daily quote: paceebene.org/this-nonviol...

🆕News: In Aug. & Sept., the annual exhibition “Tūmanako! Children’s Art Works for Peace” was held in venues in Auckland, Tauranga and Wellington, co-organized by SGI New Zealand and partner organizations. (1/2) #SokaGakkai #BuddhisminAction #SokaGakkaiNews

A closer look at our Action Days 2025 calls to action: here are just a few of the incredible groups mobilizing around Intl Peace Day! We now have more than 5,480 actions registered! To find one in your area, register one yourself, and access our full toolkits, see paceebene.org/action-days 🧵 1/2

"Neutrality, that uneasy silence born of fear and resignation, is the oxygen every autocrat breathes. Tyrants survive not merely through coercion, but by convincing us that resistance is futile, solidarity is dangerous, and isolation is inevitable." paceebene.org/blog/2025/8/...

Trump’s authoritarianism has a playbook: invent a crisis, deploy the National Guards, invade, quell resistance. It failed in LA. It will fail in DC. We can make it fail in our town, too. @freedcproject.bsky.social is coordinating resistance! Read more at our blog: paceebene.org/blog/2025/8/...

The need for nonviolence has never been greater. We need the collective effort of thousands of people like YOU to lift up the practical, useful, and powerful tools of nonviolence. 🧵 1/2

6/ 🖊️ Add your name: Stop corporate intimidation! Every signature builds the global movement resisting billionaires & corporate bullies. 👉 www.greenpeace.org/internationa... #TimeToResist

This bill betrays families so billionaires can have more wealth and live in even greater luxury. www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...

"Public recognition of history and social justice is a profound act of resistance to the policies of hate and white supremacy being implemented on the federal level." Read more and catch up on recent Nonviolence News at our blog: paceebene.org/blog/2025/8/...

This Action Days, join us in Nonviolence Toward Self! When we practice self-care, we’re not only recharging for our own well-being, we’re also building resilience and energy to create a more just and peaceful world. Check out our toolkit for ideas to get started: paceebene.org/action-days

Each year, we award 7-10 Changemaker Youth Grants to youth around the world. Now in its fourth year, these grants have impacted thousands from Malawi to Pakistan, Uganda to the United States. For a deeper dive into these inspiring projects, check out our blog: paceebene.org/.../2025/cha...

We're a few weeks out from Action Days 2025, and we've already set a new record with 5,356 actions registered so far! 🧵 1/2

NYC friends! NY is home to many enablers of the climate crisis, including insurance companies who finance pipelines while leaving homeowners in the dust. Join us SATURDAY 9/6 to learn how NY can take real action on the insurance companies risking our communities! RSVP: stmp.link/insuretownhall

Myth: War defends freedom and democracy. Fact: Nonviolent resistance is more effective at protecting life and liberty. War serves only domination—not justice, not safety, and never peace.

You’re an expert on your own experience of climate impacts and solutions. So why not share it? theconversation.com/how-to-talk-...

Sending soldiers into cities under the guise of fighting crime is an unprecedented abuse of power. And it’s illegal. bit.ly/4m6TG77

🇮🇪 Ireland is cutting ties with Israel’s war bonds, bonds that bankroll apartheid, bombings, and genocide in Gaza. Let other nations follow. Financial complicity must end. www.middleeasteye.net/news/ireland...

Check out our blog to read about the incredible Norwegian teachers’ defense of education under Nazi occupation. Over 500 people have made the pledge to Rise & Shine; invite your friends and join in! To read the full story, and sign the Rise and Shine pledge, follow paceebene.org/blog/2025/8/...

"In a time of destruction, create something." - Maxine Hong Kingston Sign up below to receive these daily quotes in your inbox! paceebene.org/this-nonviol...

"So, at this late hour, the question remains: What are you and I going to do to help stop the bombings, the starvation, the genocide?" Read more at our blog: paceebene.org/blog/2025/8/...

Check out the latest episode of John Dear's "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," featuring our own Ken Butigan! www.ncronline.org/opinion/we-h...

"As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done." - Rosa Parks Sign up below to receive these daily quotes in your inbox! paceebene.org/this-nonviol...

We'd love for you to join us for this webinar that reflects on our spiritual call to care for our common home. The space will offer insights on how pilgrimage can be a sacred path toward ecological justice and nonviolence. Read more about the webinar and register at paceebene.org/events/2025/...

"...Ahimsa does not simply mean nonviolence. It means the absence of even the desire to harm, an ethic rooted in reverence, self-awareness, and compassion for all life. It is not a strategy, nor a belief system. It is a way of being." Read more at our blog: paceebene.org/blog/2025/8/...

"In the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and...if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be lass apt to destroy both." - Christian Wiman Sign up to get these quotes by email! paceebene.org/this-nonviol...

Calling all organizers! Are you participating in the Campaign Nonviolence Action Days, September 21 - October 2, 2025? This fun virtual gathering will nourish connection to the many people taking action and send you off with practical tools! Read more and register at paceebene.org/events/2025/...

Resistance is NOT futile! Learn how in this edition of Nonviolence News: paceebene.org/blog/2025/7/...

"A democracy cannot thrive on ghosts. It requires people, real, visible people, making visible decisions in the full light of day." Read more at our blog: paceebene.org/blog/2025/7/...

This Action Days, join us in Nonviolence Toward Self: Self Care Keeps You Going. When we practice self-care, we’re not only recharging our well-being, we’re also building the resilience to create a more just world. Ready? Check out our toolkit for a few ideas: paceebene.org/action-days