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In a year of rapid authoritarian backsliding, Waging Nonviolence empowered readers and lifted up the historic protest movements rising to meet the moment. Check out our most read stories of the year.
Our top stories of 2025
In a year of rapid authoritarian backsliding, Waging Nonviolence uplifted the historic protest movements rising to meet the moment.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In a year of rapid authoritarian backsliding, Waging Nonviolence empowered readers and lifted up the historic protest movements rising to meet the moment. Check out our most read stories of the year.
In the face of rising authoritarianism, creativity is an enduring movement superpower that helped us break through the stranglehold of fear this year.
Inflatables, rainbow crosswalks, flooding snitch lines — creative action was off the charts in 2025
In the face of rising authoritarianism, creativity is an enduring movement superpower that helped us break through the stranglehold of fear this year.
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December 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In the face of rising authoritarianism, creativity is an enduring movement superpower that helped us break through the stranglehold of fear this year.
Frontline communities telling their own stories is essential for holding world leaders accountable to commitments made at COP30.
After COP30, Indigenous narratives are more important than ever
Frontline communities telling their own stories is essential for holding world leaders accountable to commitments made at COP30.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Frontline communities telling their own stories is essential for holding world leaders accountable to commitments made at COP30.
No strangers to the perils of war, Ukrainian activists and journalists are connecting their struggle to Gaza.
Palestine solidarity in Ukraine is all about shared experiences
No strangers to the perils of war, Ukrainian activists and journalists are connecting their struggle to Gaza.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
No strangers to the perils of war, Ukrainian activists and journalists are connecting their struggle to Gaza.
Taoist monk and doctor of Chinese medicine John Blue discusses the role of rest, stillness and attentiveness in the work of justice.
Taoism and the inner practice of nonviolence in winter
Taoist monk and doctor of Chinese medicine John Blue discusses the role of rest, stillness and attentiveness in the work of justice.
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December 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Taoist monk and doctor of Chinese medicine John Blue discusses the role of rest, stillness and attentiveness in the work of justice.
Genocide in Gaza, raids on immigrants and attacks on DEI have spurred urgent calls to boycott companies like Home Depot, Target, Chevron and Microsoft.
#BoycottAmazon #BoycottMcDonald #BoycottCocaCola #BoycottChevron #BoycottTarget #BoycottHomeDepot
#BoycottAmazon #BoycottMcDonald #BoycottCocaCola #BoycottChevron #BoycottTarget #BoycottHomeDepot
Holiday shoppers are flexing political power through big boycott campaigns
Genocide in Gaza, raids on immigrants and attacks on DEI have spurred calls to boycott companies like Home Depot, Target and Microsoft.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Genocide in Gaza, raids on immigrants and attacks on DEI have spurred urgent calls to boycott companies like Home Depot, Target, Chevron and Microsoft.
#BoycottAmazon #BoycottMcDonald #BoycottCocaCola #BoycottChevron #BoycottTarget #BoycottHomeDepot
#BoycottAmazon #BoycottMcDonald #BoycottCocaCola #BoycottChevron #BoycottTarget #BoycottHomeDepot
To counter the march toward militarism at home and abroad, we need a movement with a winning message and broad coalition willing to engage in institutional politics.
The American peace movement we need today
To counter the march toward militarism at home and abroad, we need a winning message and broad coalition engaged in institutional politics.
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December 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
To counter the march toward militarism at home and abroad, we need a movement with a winning message and broad coalition willing to engage in institutional politics.
Widespread protests across Germany are a sign that the new military conscription legislation will face fierce noncooperation.
Germans are not falling in line for the new military draft
Widespread protests across Germany are a sign that the new military conscription legislation will face fierce noncooperation.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Widespread protests across Germany are a sign that the new military conscription legislation will face fierce noncooperation.
To build a powerful movement for peace and justice, ordinary people must first understand that we are in an emergency. Jim Douglass's new book “Martyrs to the Unspeakable” makes this crisis clear.
Those in power are terrified of peace
To build a powerful movement for peace and justice, ordinary people must first understand that we are in an emergency.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
To build a powerful movement for peace and justice, ordinary people must first understand that we are in an emergency. Jim Douglass's new book “Martyrs to the Unspeakable” makes this crisis clear.
The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder Myles Horton offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.
Learning from Myles Horton’s legendary career in social movements
The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder Myles Horton offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.
From Kenya to Nepal, Gen Z movements sweeping the globe are joyfully defying authoritarianism with memes, stunts and dance videos.
How memes and humor are fueling Gen Z’s global uprisings
From Kenya to Nepal, Gen Z movements sweeping the globe are joyfully defying authoritarianism with memes, stunts and dance videos.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
From Kenya to Nepal, Gen Z movements sweeping the globe are joyfully defying authoritarianism with memes, stunts and dance videos.
Veteran organizer Marshall Ganz diagnoses how we hit rock-bottom and identifies where we must go next, pointing to Zohran Mamdani's campaign as a model.
Veteran organizer Marshall Ganz sees a path to power under Trump
The lifelong organizer diagnoses how we hit rock-bottom and identifies where we must go next, citing the Mamdani campaign as a model.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Veteran organizer Marshall Ganz diagnoses how we hit rock-bottom and identifies where we must go next, pointing to Zohran Mamdani's campaign as a model.
Student activists have already won important victories over Trump’s authoritarian agenda and they’re just getting started.
Inside the student resistance to authoritarianism on campus
Student activists have already won important victories over Trump’s authoritarian agenda and they’re just getting started.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Student activists have already won important victories over Trump’s authoritarian agenda and they’re just getting started.
In response to systematic censorship by Meta and other platforms, Palestinians and their allies have built an innovative new playbook of tactics to beat the algorithm.
How the pro-Palestine movement is outsmarting the algorithms
In response to systematic censorship by social media, Palestinians and their allies have built a playbook of tactics to beat the algorithm.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
In response to systematic censorship by Meta and other platforms, Palestinians and their allies have built an innovative new playbook of tactics to beat the algorithm.
Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
We’re entering a new phase of the resistance
Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Mapping the shift from shock to the beginnings of mass action over the last 10 months of the anti-authoritarian struggle in the U.S.
As we approach the holidays, here are eight tips for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.
Let’s agree to stop ‘keeping the peace’ this holiday season
As we approach the holidays, here are eight tools for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
As we approach the holidays, here are eight tips for discussing difficult topics with family that center connection over conflict.
As the U.S. antiwar movement targets the weapons supply chain enabling the genocide in Gaza, it can learn much from the decades-long struggle against cluster bombs in Minneapolis. #armsembargonow
A 40-year fight against cluster bombs offers lessons to stop the US-Israel weapons pipeline
The Honeywell Project in Minneapolis showed how to beat a weapons maker: obstruct operations, recruit workers, build camaraderie and persist.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
As the U.S. antiwar movement targets the weapons supply chain enabling the genocide in Gaza, it can learn much from the decades-long struggle against cluster bombs in Minneapolis. #armsembargonow
Nonviolent movements that have toppled oppressive regimes, prevented coups and transformed societies follow these four essential steps.
The playbook of every successful nonviolent struggle
Nonviolent movements that have toppled oppressive regimes, prevented coups and transformed societies follow these four essential steps.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Nonviolent movements that have toppled oppressive regimes, prevented coups and transformed societies follow these four essential steps.
Sudanese organizer Mubarak Elamin discusses Sudan’s long history of nonviolent resistance and international complicity.
How international solidarity can help stop Sudan's genocide
Sudanese organizer Mubarak Elamin discusses Sudan’s long history of nonviolent resistance and international complicity.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Sudanese organizer Mubarak Elamin discusses Sudan’s long history of nonviolent resistance and international complicity.
Drawing inspiration from other Gen Z movements, Peruvians have removed one scandal-plagued president and are now mobilizing against her right-wing successor.
Youth-led protesters ousted Peru’s president, and they’re not done
Drawing inspiration from other Gen Z movements, Peruvians have removed one scandal-plagued president and are now mobilizing against her right-wing successor.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Drawing inspiration from other Gen Z movements, Peruvians have removed one scandal-plagued president and are now mobilizing against her right-wing successor.
Sanctions are required to get beyond the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, and love is required to transform the immense trauma in Israel that fuels the violence.
Imposing sanctions on Israel with love
Sanctions are required to go beyond the fragile Gaza ceasefire and love is needed to transform the immense trauma fueling Israel's violence.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Sanctions are required to get beyond the fragile ceasefire in Gaza, and love is required to transform the immense trauma in Israel that fuels the violence.
Organizers can borrow ideas from the business world — such as an influential concept called the “innovator’s dilemma” — about where to look for innovation, and about how our movement ecology can make space for it.
What social movements can learn from the ‘innovator’s dilemma’
Organizers can borrow ideas from the business world about where to look for innovation, and how our movement ecology can make space for it.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Organizers can borrow ideas from the business world — such as an influential concept called the “innovator’s dilemma” — about where to look for innovation, and about how our movement ecology can make space for it.
Legendary singer and activist Joan Baez discusses the essential role of music in movements, the need to keep our eyes on the prize — and to keep dancing.
'Carry your light out into the shitstorm' — a conversation with Joan Baez
Legendary singer Joan Baez discusses the essential role of music in movements, the need to keep our eyes on the prize and keep dancing.
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November 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Legendary singer and activist Joan Baez discusses the essential role of music in movements, the need to keep our eyes on the prize — and to keep dancing.
Jeremy Varon’s new book, “Our Grief is Not a Cry for War,” honors the commitment and complexity of the movements to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lessons from the movement to stop the ‘war on terror’
Jeremy Varon’s new book, “Our Grief is Not a Cry for War,” honors the commitment and complexity of the movements to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Jeremy Varon’s new book, “Our Grief is Not a Cry for War,” honors the commitment and complexity of the movements to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Meta Peace Team member Sheila McCarthy discusses how unarmed civilian protection teams offer protective presence, document abuses, and help make it possible for people — especially children — to remain safely on their land.
The power of ‘protective presence’ in Palestine
Meta Peace Team member Sheila McCarthy discusses how unarmed civilian protection teams help Palestinians remain safely on their land.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Meta Peace Team member Sheila McCarthy discusses how unarmed civilian protection teams offer protective presence, document abuses, and help make it possible for people — especially children — to remain safely on their land.