Nonviolence
Fifa World Cup: June 12 protests flood the world’s media
Demonstrations, strikes and violence have reached the global media. Attention is turned towards the protests taking place all around Brazil as the World Cup starts. June 12 started out with Galeão airport partially paralysed by demonstrations. In São Paulo, at 10am an Assembly of the Metro Workers Union and the… »
Politics, where are you now? Europe, where are you going?
In these last few days we have heard (and published on Pressenza) a number of points of view formulated around the results of the European elections: Here we shall endeavour to make a further analysis, bearing in mind some of the themes, i.e. peace, humanism, nonviolence, human rights, and non-descrimination… »
How activists plan to win on net neutrality
By Jay Cassano, May 29, 2014 for Waging Nonviolence On May 15, the Federal Communications Commission approved with a 3-2 vote to go ahead with its proposed net neutrality rules. These rules, although claiming to protect the open Internet, would actually enable websites… »
Adonis, a voice carried by the Syrian winds….
This translator and writer, known as Adonis, is “one of the greatest living Arab poets”, and was born on January 1, 1930 at Qassabine in Syria. His family was a humble one; however, when he was only seventeen, he published a poem signed with the pseudonym Adonis (after the Phonecian… »
Japan in danger to lose its constitutional article for the rejection of war
After the horrors of World War II Japan installed article 9 in its constitution which generally renounces war as a means of conflict resolution and this way forbade the building up of an army. In fact Japan possesses so called “self-defense forces” but this article helped to keep Japan out… »
45 years ago, a message of Peace and Nonviolence today needed more than ever
On May 4th 1969 Silo, also known as “The Sage of the Andes”, spoke to a group of about 200 people who had arrived to Punta de Vacas, a remote outpost at the foothills of Mount Aconcagua near the border between Argentina and Chile. He had been forced to speak… »
An open letter from widows in the Philippines
Dear Mr. President Barack Obama, Greetings with the music of the bamboo flute… We write to you with much hope that your attention will bring light to our search for truth, justice and healing. We are women widowed by the extra-judicial killings and massacre of our beloved husbands. »
Peace, disarmament, active nonviolence. Interview with Alex Zanotelli
www.shekina.it Alex Zanotelli is an Italian priest and a Comboni missionary, the founder of several movements that promote peace and justice in solidarity. He is also one of the promoters of the Arena of Peace and Disarmament which will take place on April 25 in… »
Manifesto: We want to be happy and walk in the favela where we were born
For decades the State has not recognized the favela as an integral part of the city, denying favela residents their basic rights. Today, after three years of public security occupation in Complexo de Alemão, we see that the path to the guarantee of our civil rights is still long, as… »
In Bolivia, being a journalist and organizer go together
Marta Molina for Waging Nonviolence Susana Pacara, one of the founders of Radio Lachiwana in Cochabamba, Bolivia, believes that communication work is a key part of the defense of territory. She doesn’t mean this in an abstract way. Over the years, Pacara has… »