We live in an upside world. Right now in the planet there is a social unjust distribution and accumulation of wealth, inflation of social injustice, restriction of basic rights and freedom, and an unprecedented depletion of natural resources. Although global … Continue reading
As we sat around a campfire in Brisbane, Kevin Buzzacott held up a bottle of water collected from the springs near Lake Eyre — a vast salt encrusted plain, which except in times of rare floods is bone dry. The … Continue reading
Activists experienced some big wins in 2013 — from the overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act to the ruling against stop-and-frisk in New York City to the revelations uncovered by NSA whisteblower Edward Snowden to an averted U.S. war … Continue reading
The Euromaidan protests in Ukraine have entered their second month, with several hudred thousand protesters gathering in Kyiv and other cities daily. The movement began as a pro-EU demonstration mostly by young people in response to a halted Ukraine-EU agreement … Continue reading
Anita Haidary is an Afghan women’s rights activist and co-founder of Young Women for Change (YWC), a non-governmental organization aiming to empower and improve the lives of women in Afghanistan. Members of YWC are committed to promoting gender equality, empowering … Continue reading
Three years ago Tunisians ousted long-time dictator Ben Ali. They fought for liberty and dignity, inspiring a global wave of resistance. Today, the structures of the regime remain largely intact. A new constitution has yet to be finalized and police … Continue reading
“Watch Everyday Rebellion, it´s got lot of lessons and poetry!” Mike Bonanno is a leading member of The Yes Men. They have already embarrassed some major corporations with their anarchist and subversive activism. One of their creative methods of nonviolent … Continue reading
Marco Godoy is a creative activist from Madrid who lives now in London. He is always looking for new ways of thinking and understanding protests. In his works he is confronted with questions like: How is power constructed? Often architecture … Continue reading
Everyday Rebellion by Arash T. Riahi and Arman T. Riahi has won the main award of the B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, the BEN award, in the category Transmedia. Our second crossmedia award! „This project was unanimously chosen by … Continue reading
Lisa Fithian is an American political activist. She has been working for nonviolent social change since the mid 1970’s. Over the years she has been a student, labor and community organizer on a broad range of issues. From environmental justice … Continue reading
The two artists Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud developed a community project named “Qaulnet”. In a situation where people are cut off from the internet, they are able to communicate and to form a spontaneous network via free WIFI. Especially … Continue reading
50,000 garment workers demanding higher pay flooded the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh Saturday, and 20,000 shut down dozens of factories by walking off the job, in the largest demonstrations to ever sweep the notoriously dangerous and low-wage Bangladesh garment industry. … Continue reading
How can democratic thinking be established in a country that has never experienced it before? Ashraf El Sharkawy knows Egypt only from his summer holidays. He was born in Germany to Egyptian parents. Driven by the urge to give something … Continue reading
The Organization for Social, Cultural, Awareness, and Rehabilitation, or OSCAR, started teaching courses on nonviolent civic mobilization to a large number of Afghan youths and members of civil society — including women. Over time, OSCAR needed to develop a teaching … Continue reading
Stop governments from spying on you by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary services. Apple, Google, and Microsoft are allegedly a part of PRISM. Their proprietary operating systems cannot be trusted to safeguard your personal information from … Continue reading
Sick and tired of pretending to care about and follow Islam, Esha Athena in her blog writes about the fundamentalistic views of the Islamic community, in which her family is participating. She also critizises the illogical and contradictory rhetoric of the … Continue reading
Everyday women in Pakistan have to deal with sexual harassement, regardless of how they are dressed. On the internet you can find statements like ‘if women choose the right to be naked it is our right to rape them’… … Continue reading
Ihr Lieben, Die letzten drei Wochenenden war ich auf den Prinzeninseln und es hat so gut getan weit weg zu sein von Taksim und Park, denn in letzter Zeit verfluche ich die zentrale Lage meiner Wohnung. Jeden Tag sehe ich … Continue reading
Yesterday’s decision by a Tunisian court to dismiss a defamation case against the 18-year-old FEMEN activist Amina Sboui is only a partial victory, Amnesty International said as it called for her release. Amina was arrested on 19 May after writing … Continue reading
The performance-preacher Reverend Billy is having an adventuresome trip across the UK — the “Golden Toads Resurrection Tour”. With his “Stop Shopping Choir” he got inspired by a charismatic and extinct species whose spirit implores us not to doom still … Continue reading
Angry protests erupted on Thursday in Sidi Bouzid, the birthplace of the Tunisian revolution, as thousands of people took to the streets, blocking roads and burning tyres, after the morning assassination of opposition leader Mohamed Brahmi. Gunmen have shot dead … Continue reading
Free internet access is a human right. But the government of Iran doesn´t allow a free flow of information … An animated short by Maral Pourkazemi & Florian Köhne Watch the video on vimeo
The Zimmerman verdict reminds us that in the United States Black life is given no value by the forces of law, order, and property. While #hoodiesup shows a historical force drawn up in opposition, the direction of the protests is … Continue reading
How to be ready against police oppression before – and not after – you get arrested is crucial to take away the activists’ fear of falling into the hands of police. Listen to Srdja Popovic in the 15th installment of … Continue reading
It’s a major escalation in the Bosnian “baby revolution”, which began in earnest last month. Some of 1,000 Bosnians gather on June 11, 2013 in front of the parliament in Sarajevo to protest against a legal void which has left all … Continue reading
On 29 June 2012, the Shifang government in China’s Sichuan province announced the construction of a molybdenum-copper alloy factory. High school students in the area who were concerned about the factory’s environmental impacts sent the government a petition calling for … Continue reading
Do you know how to change the world? The writer John-Paul Flintoff wrote a book based on Gene Sharp’s book “198 ways to make a change”, where is he talking about three types of action: – Drawing attention to an … Continue reading
Violence in society and politics, whether in the form of war, terrorism, dictatorship, oppression, usurpation, or genocide, is widely recognized as a grave problem. All the proposals to solve the problem of violence, or particular expressions of it, have been … Continue reading
Glück im Unglück Gestern gegen 20h machen wir uns wieder auf in den neu eröffneten Gezi Park. Auf der Istiklal sind bereits Demonstrierende versammelt und rufen, oben am Platz postieren sich Richtung Istiklal mal wieder Wasserwerfer und Polizei, die, wie … Continue reading
Joshua Stephens, a board member for the Institute for Anarchist Studies, is talking with Mohammed Hassan Aazab about his return to resistance. Aazab was done with protests and politics, and he had resigned himself to the dysfunction of day-to-day life … Continue reading
