Thank you! Glad to see NonViolenceNews.org here on BlueSky! #NonViolenceIsPower #EveryEffortCounts

People are making the real news around the world. They are the change makers. Be inspired. HERE>> nonviolencenews.org/2026/02/27/f... Every week Nonviolence News publishes a free summary of the news that will keep you going to change the world. Thanks to editor @riverasun.bsky.social

If your state or city does not have a local listing of people powered actions...then start one. @pinetreeactivism.org does a remarkable job here in Maine.

The protests before the start of the Iraq War were some of the largest in history. But the movement lost momentum and failed because leaders did not tell people what the next steps were—how to escalate and go on the offensive using nonviolent noncooperation. Protests are not enough.

People are waking up all over the world. Dictators, oligarchs are weakening no matter how they blunder and kill. We are winning. We must win. And we are using nonviolence. Great news here>> nonviolencenews.org/2026/02/27/f... Edited by @riverasun.bsky.social

Our “unalienable” rights don’t come from God or the government. Our rights are based on our willingness and capacity to seize them. We obtain and maintain the rights we have only through collective struggle.

14 years ago @riverasun.bsky.social wrote an award winning novel about the oligarchy coming out of the closet and the people rising to win back freedom. Tens of thousands of copies are inspiring readers around the world. It is hope in a time of grief, the good medicine you need. riverasun.com

“What’s it like to wake up and find your novel has come to life?” A reader asked me this recently and I answered. “Strange. Wild. Frightening. But remember: I also know the end of the story.” from @riverasun.bsky.social riverasun.com/were-living-...

People are waking up all over the world. Dictators, oligarchs are weakening no matter how they blunder and kill. We are winning. We must win. And we are using nonviolence. Great news here>> nonviolencenews.org/2026/02/27/f... Edited by @riverasun.bsky.social

Some more happy Nonviolence News @nonviolencenews.bsky.social this morning - in spite of the darkness light can shine through ✊️ nonviolencenews.org/2026/02/27/f...

Indomitable hearts, arise! The best thing about having written a prescient speculative fiction novel 13 years ago about a mass nonviolent movement in the United States is seeing the bold-hearted #resistance come true. Find it here: store.riverasun.com/collections/... #BookSky #novels #resist

Stand up for science!

Creativity in social justice actions allows you to have bigger impact and lots more fun. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp4x...

Come learn nonviolent resistance. We're doing a virtual version of yesterday's in-person workshop. Your host @riverasun.bsky.social It's Free. Sign up at this link... mailchi.mp/riverasun/no...

Come learn nonviolent resistance. We're doing a virtual version of yesterday's in-person workshop. Your host @riverasun.bsky.social It's Free. Sign up at this link... mailchi.mp/riverasun/no...

#ImpeachConvictRemove Today's reason: willful defiance of the Supreme Court's clear rejoinder that the POTUS must obey the Constitution of the United States, and leave tariffs in the hands of Congress.

It's #SOTU tonight. What are you watching? #Netflix #StateOfTheSwamp #PeoplesSOTU #AnythingButTrump "What does Trump love more than anything else in the world? ATTENTION. And nothing would infuriate him more than being deprived of it." defiancedispatch.substack.com/p/guidance-f...

300 Million Strike in India There were hundreds of nonviolent actions around the world last week... frontline.thehindu.com/news/india-b...

Check out this weeks Nonviolence News. A free weekly newsletter of inspiring and uplifting news about people winning and changing the world. Edited by @riverasun.bsky.social nonviolencenews.org/2026/02/21/i...

300 Million Strike in India There were hundreds of nonviolent actions around the world last week... frontline.thehindu.com/news/india-b...

The Dandelion Insurrection is eerily prescient, hauntingly familiar, and heartwarmingly hopeful. It's the novel everyone should be reading this year. Find it here: store.riverasun.com/collections/... #BookSky #novels #writersresist #Resist #fiction #nonviolence #resistance

Nonviolence News looks around the world because there’s a lot going on. India’s workers unions and farmer groups held a historic 1-day national strike with up to 300 million people opposing a set of ‘anti-people policies.’ nonviolencenews.org/2026/02/21/i...

Trump is unfit to hold office. #ImpeachConvictRemove (repeat as needed)

We know how to resist censorship.

Under pressure from a new wave of local divestment campaigns, US states and municipalities that underwrote the genocide in Gaza are selling off Israeli bonds. #breakthebonds #DivestFromIsrael

A fierce critic of U.S. imperialism and nuclear weapons, Jesse Jackson helped build a larger and more diverse peace movement.

“There is so much protest and resistance going on in the US, I literally can’t keep up.” - Rivera Sun, Nonviolence News @nonviolencenews.bsky.social mailchi.mp/nonviolencen...

Some R doing great things. Eg. @wagingnonviolence.org @nonviolencenews.bsky.social @choosedemocracy.bsky.social . Sadly media/we fail to share their work as much as would be helpful. This Julia Bacha "Pay Attention to Nonviolence" TED talk is important: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F_q...

Be inspired. Every week, 30-50 stories of nonviolent action changing the world. They van do it, so can you! This week-- Mexico Disarmament, South Korea Wins, Romania in an Uproar & Hopes of a Ceasefire nonviolencenews.org/2025/01/17/m...