SOPHIA GONZALEZ – Real diplomacy should reduce the role of force, not normalize it. A serious negotiating strategy would begin with a durable ceasefire, clear limits on military operations, congressional authorization for any continued hostilities and sustained mediation through credible third parties. Those are not gifts to an adversary. They are safeguards against turning perpetual war into standard procedure.
Democratizing training for nonviolent resistance
JAMILA RAQIB and ALIA BRALEY – No platform, website or training program can replace the creativity, courage and local knowledge of the people organizing for change. But we hope that the People-Powered Training Platform becomes part of the infrastructure that helps movements learn from one another, think more strategically, and act more effectively together. Because while the challenges facing our societies are immense, so too is the capacity of ordinary people to meet them.
Chinese scientists set world record with new solar cell exceeding 28% efficiency
GLOBAL TIMES – Further development and deployment of the technology described and explained here could enable solar energy to power not only life and production on Earth but also future deep-space exploration missions.
How the state uses conspiracy charges to crush social movements
ADI SALEEM – One lesson that we can learn from the historical continuity between each of these episodes is that movements for economic and racial justice, movements against wars and imperialism, and anti-fascism as a concept (through the targeting of “antifa”) have all been described, in different moments, as threats to public order. In each case, the state and its prosecutors have been able to portray individuals participating in these movements as public enemies.
Our government must face the moral consequences of its wars
ROBERT C. KOEHLER – When is the last time the U.S. government, or a fragment thereof, has truly been held accountable – not merely legally or politically, but morally accountable – for an act of violence, for its addiction to violence?
Nonviolent Tactics Were Most of the Actual American Revolution
TOM HASTINGS – In 1815, John Adams noted, “The Revolution was in the Minds and Hearts of the People, and in the Union of the Colonies, both of which were Substantially effected before Hostilities commenced.”