VICTORIA VALENZUELA – Within movements, there is sub-movement to address sexual harm in organizing spaces. Many people who have done this work say a culture of putting the cause above oneself, or not wanting to make the movement look bad, results in movements becoming spaces rife with abuse. However, there are people who are working to empower survivors, keep organizers safe and hold perpetrators accountable.
Which Way to National Security?
LAWRENCE S. WITTNER – Arguing that both nationalist and alliance strategies for coping with international affairs have failed to safeguard national security, the article calls for strengthening international organizations.
What Does a Win Look Like? Plus Other Nonviolence News
RIVERA SUN – While the stories of nonviolence news are often plentiful (see the Nonviolence News Research Archive for 73 articles), several of them are also an invitation to reflect in greater depth than nonviolence news usually does. This week Rivera Sun takes some time to reflect thoughtfully with readers and followers about a few themes of accountability and integrity.
America has one birthday, the USA was born on another
KARY LOVE – A schizoid values division continues to this day. Human rights America was born July 4, 1776. Money and power USA was born September 17, 1787. A balance was sought in the Bill of Rights adopted December 15, 1791. But the division remains to be manipulated and used by factions favoring one value side or the other, dividing the people into camps to be exploited for political power gain and loss.
Pete Hegseth’s Crusade Against the First Amendment
MEL GURTOV – Invoking God and country in American interventions abroad is nothing new. But Pete Hegseth has taken that message a step farther by intertwining his religion with the nation’s military establishment. He should be next in line to be dismissed from the cabinet.
The Minneapolis protests recall a long lineage of women’s peace movements
JODI VANDENBERG-DAVES – The Minneapolis protests recall a long lineage of women’s peace movements: Women bringing innovation, moral clarity, caregiving and an insistence on justice.