Violence De-Escalation Trainings Are Key To Making Movements Stronger
Ever-growing political violence in the U.S. (not to mention abroad) has been a mainstay of current events. These tragic episodes have included political assassinations of Democratic state lawmakers in Minnesota; the assassination of Israeli Embassy personnel in mid-May; the attack on an interfaith gathering calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado in late May; the firebombing of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence in April; and the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles to quell demonstrations against militarized Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, raids on immigrant workers in Los Angeles.