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Yona Roseman, 19-year-old: “Israel is committing genocide, and we must resist”

This coming Sunday, August 17, at 10:00 a.m., at the Haifa enlistment camp, Yona Roseman, a 19-year-old from Haifa, will refuse to enlist in protest against the genocide in Gaza, and will probably be tried and sent to prison. Activists…

Yurii Sheliazenko: “The protests are good, but there are still some Ukrainians who believe in the war.”

In Kiev, I met Yurii Sheliazenko, a Quaker conscientious objector and leader of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, whom I had met and interviewed during my trip to Ukraine last August, and his friend Artem Denysov, also a Quaker. They took…

Nonviolence is as American as Apple Pie

“The real American tradition isn’t war—it’s the people’s resistance to it.” On June 16, Rolling Stone reported on the recent “No Kings” demonstrations that revealed something profound about American values. In the article they noted that Saturday’s protests drew millions…

Don’t kill hope. A free voice from Iran. First part

“They taught you not to shine. And yet, you shine.” These words by Pier Paolo Pasolini resonate deeply with the courage of Iranian women who have broken through the walls of fear and silence, sparking an irreversible transformation. The chant…

Georgia and Serbia: Struggles and Synergies in the Heart of the “Europe Beyond EU”

On 30 March, Georgian diaspora groups gathered outside the European Parliament in Brussels, further supporting the protests shaking Tbilisi for months against the increasingly authoritarian turn taken by the ruling “Georgian Dream” party accelerated since October 2024. For nearly five…

Jewish Protesters Takes Over Trump Tower to Demand Release of Mahmoud Khalil

In New York, police arrested some 100 protesters as the group Jewish Voice for Peace led a major sit-in protest inside Trump Tower to call for the release of detained Palestinian activist, recent Columbia University graduate, Mahmoud Khalil. Those arrested…

“Absolutely Unacceptable and Illegal”: Lawmakers Demand Release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE Jail

Fourteen members of Congress have signed a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanding the release of recent Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent resident of the U.S. who was arrested by immigration authorities for helping organize campus…

Connecting the dots between climate destruction and its financial backers

Standing on a mobile stage in a suburban Philadelphia park on July 3, Ugandan human rights activist Hillary Taylor poured a cup of dirt into a clay vase. “This soil represents all my communities in Uganda and Tanzania,” he said…

Why protests work, even when not everybody likes them

Organizers must learn to embrace the polarizing nature of protest in order to use it effectively. By Mark Engler and Paul Engler [Editor’s note: This article is the first in a two-part series about how movements can understand and harness…

Thousands mobilize in Washington DC in a historic day of action to protest Netanyahu’s visit

On July 24, tens of thousands of people from across the United States mobilized to Washington, DC to take part in a protest calling for the arrest of war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister arrived this…

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