Tag: movements
How ideology can help (or hurt) movements trying to build power
Political educator Harmony Goldberg discusses whether the ideological traditions of the left are helpful for practical organizing.
Sometimes a student movement can spark a revolution
Here is why student protest movements are the key to understanding both our present and our future.
6 ways to stay focused on movement-building amid the post-election chaos
In this time of uncertainty, movements must continue the long-term work of building democracy.
As the decade closes, the power of protest endures
A new global social movement is growing, in schools and on the streets.
Building power and raising voices of rural women
Rural women have served as the educators, healthcare givers, nurturers, and fighters for our community for generations.
Mobilizing against extinction
"When society is ready to lose its sense of fear in the face of state authority, then everything crumbles and change can happen.”
5 ways new movement leaders are effecting change
Today, new movements are working with more established organizations to capitalize on their wide-reaching networks.
Our opponents’ actions show we’re winning
Together, we can create transformational change. We are closer than we realize.
Do protests matter? What the Tea Party Movement can teach the...
This is how rallies grow into movements and create social change.
On the road from protest to power: A rising tide
The “political establishment” is going to have a much harder time using its financial and institutional muscle to relegate this new generation of thoughtful, strategic and energized grassroots candidates.
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US diplomacy thwarts Palestinian UN membership amid claims of supporting statehood leaked cable shows
This diplomatic maneuvering seeks to avoid a U.S. veto, which would publicly align the country against Palestinian self-determination.
Supreme silence: High court decision curtails protest rights, stifling voices in the South
As the case now returns to lower courts for further proceedings, the national discourse on the limits of free speech and the right to protest continues to evolve.
Supreme Court questions use of obstruction law in Jan. 6 riot cases amid concerns...
This law is now at the center of a legal battle concerning its suitability for punishing those who stormed the Capitol during the certification of the 2020 election results.
New report reveals millionaires’ tax rates slashed by half since 1950s, fueling wealth inequality
This stark reduction in tax rates for the wealthiest Americans coincides with an era of escalating income disparity and could be costing the federal government hundreds of billions in lost revenue annually.
Missouri Republican Attorney General Bailey sues Media Matters using consumer law to censor the...
An analysis of Mo. Attorney General Andrew Bailey's bogus allegations against Media Matters.