Punk Music For Mutual Aid, Kenya's Wunderlust Parties, Radical Librarians, & Argentina's University Struggle

Editor's Note From Rivera Sun

Sometimes, you’ve got to sit down to rise up. That was the case at 100 universities across Argentina, where mass assemblies were held by students and educators. Protest actions are already erupting against President Melei’s drastic, 70% budget slashes that have destroyed the nation’s historic free higher education system. The assemblies aim to build organizing power so widespread resistance can hope to push back and preserve education for all.

In more Nonviolence News, Greek dockworkers halted a load of ammunition headed for Israel, Italians protested militarism and genocide during the G7 Summit, the Red Rock Indian Band shut down a highway after a Canadian national park desecrated human remains from the 1400s, and refugees in Australia maintained a protest encampment for 100 days calling for permanent visas. Diabetes patients are forcing Big Pharma to stop price gouging insulin. United Kingdom doctors launched a manifesto and campaign to overhaul the National Health Services. Alabama prisoners went on hunger strike to protest delays to release dates. Cubans are protesting in darkness against the constant blackouts caused by the mishandling of the nation’s power grid.

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Here are some more stories you won’t want to miss: there’s a composer playing free concerts for climate action in every town in his state, Hollywood has a Greenpeace thriller in the works, the punk music scene is raising money for mutual aid, women-to-women listening circles between survivors of the Tigray War and the Rwandan Genocide are offering healing, Kenya’s Wunderlust Parties are making safe havens for queer people, and radical librarians are ensuring that kids of all diversities see themselves as heroes in children’s literature.

In solidarity,
Rivera Sun