Thursday, March 23, 2023

Tag: movements

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.

Uber Democrats: Workers should cooperate, not ‘compete’

Democrats should be brave enough to call Americans together again – as working people, as a movement, and as a community.

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Black residents of Cancer Alley sue local government for discrimination in siting chemical facilities

“We’re being ignored and we have to do whatever we have to do to stop it.”

Senior climate activists rally across US to ‘stop dirty banks’

"We must break the big banks' addiction to Big Oil."

A highway to peace or a highway to hell?

Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry, fully engaged in corralling, containing, and constraining it, Eisenhower concluded, could save democracy and bolster peaceful methods and goals. 

Is pretend politics—hawking a counterfeit self—the ultimate right-wing propaganda?

For “real” Rethugs one looks in vain –/ It’s quicksand, whether frauds or insane.

On MAGA’s deceptive fixation: founders ‘ordained this Christian nation’

But when did factual truth matter/ To yahoos seizing forms to shatter?