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Published in: TransformationHow repression can fuel a movement
Repression often energizes resistance and undercuts the legitimacy of elites.
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Published in: TransformationNo justice without love: why activism must be more generous
I want to be a member of a thriving and diverse social movement, not a cult or a religion.
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Published in: TransformationSocial activism and the economics of mental health
Apolitical volunteering is ill-equipped to address the structural causes of depression.
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Published in: Transformation1968: The revolution that will not die
How conservatives won the counter-revolution after 1968—and how they might lose.
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Published in: Transformation“The price on everything is love:” how a Detroit community overcomes a lack of city services
A range of neighbor-to-neighbor efforts address basic needs that aren’t met by local government.
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Published in: TransformationNavigating the white water of these turbulent times
The struggle for liberation has never been about safety; justice is gained by confronting reality, however dangerous...
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Published in: TransformationWhat hope for the millennial generation in politics?
Millennials are confronted by political systems that don’t look like them, speak like them or address their core...
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Published in: TransformationCould shock tactics do more harm than good to the vegan cause?
As veganism advances in popular culture it makes sense to shift the movement’s strategies from ‘horror’ to ‘hipster.’
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Published in: TransformationThe rise of resistance and resilience to tear gas
Tear gas turns the square, the march and the public assembly into a toxic space.
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Published in: TransformationRemembering Dorothy Cotton, freedom educator
We need to believe ourselves capable of something greater than the dehumanizing roles our society has given us.
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Published in: TransformationThe Migrant Quilt: re-stitching the fabric of community
Memory is the first form of resistance.
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Published in: TransformationBuilding a different form of power: young people’s voices from California’s Central Valley
We are proud to be Black and Brown, we are proud to be immigrants and refugees, and we are thriving.
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Published in: TransformationCould NGOs flourish in a future without foreign aid?
Only when myths are revealed as myths can there be a clear-eyed conversation about the best ways forward.
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Published in: TransformationFifty years later, we still have a dream
As the Poor People’s Campaign arrives in Washington DC it’s time to celebrate Public Service Day.
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Published in: TransformationWhat we can really learn from Gandhi?
Social struggle calls for true transformation, a trading in of old lives for new.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe Great Return March and the women of Gaza
Why are Palestine’s feminists fighting on two fronts?
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Published in: TransformationEight lessons from climate organizing for today’s youth-led movements
As a young person, there’s nothing less empowering than listening to an older person tell you how real activism was...
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Published in: TransformationThe future of trade unions
Unless democracy is reinstated as the movement’s guiding principle, organized labor will fail in any form.
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Published in: TransformationAt what cost? A second reflection on the crisis at Save the Children UK
Part two: ‘where next?’ Part one on ‘what went wrong’ can be found here.
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Published in: TransformationIs it time for voluntary poverty?
Alternative forms of charity could have a deeper impact on the forces that underpin moral and social transformation.