Week of July 1, 2024
Nonviolence Report starts at 31:49
Topic Scans and Links:
Freedom Flotilla, a set of boats that is sailing to Gaza. After visiting various ports across Europe, the flotilla will sail to Gaza to challenge Israel's illegal maritime blockade of Gaza, using nonviolent tactics.
Protest in Dublin, “Respect Existence, or Expect Resistance.”
Paul Chappell from Peace Literacy Institute is offering training in the form of online courses.
The Chinese are researching a battery that would base on sodium chloride instead of silicone.
Greenpeace has succeeded in pausing a gas drilling project.
Edinburgh, Scotland will no longer allow ads for airlines, sports utility vehicles, cruise ships and fossil fuels.
Vermont has become the first state to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate impacts.
International Week of Action has blockaded numerous private airports across Europe putting pressure on super wealthy people to pay attention to the climate crisis.
Verbal First Aid “Science has demonstrated that words, thoughts, images, and memories actually generate an instantaneous cascade of chemicals, causing a physiological reaction within us. This reaction is most marked when we are in crisis, panic, fear, or pain. But the good news is that our thinking makes a very real difference. And not only for us, but for the people that we want to help.”
Extinction Rebellion and Scientist Rebellion have sprayed black paint on several mega yachts in a marina port in protest of the eco, social, and climate crisis.
Reverend James Lawson has passed on, on June 9th in Los Angeles at the age of 95.
