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Published in: TransformationHow can allies protect communities threatened with violence?
How to avoid the ‘white savior syndrome.’
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Published in: TransformationThe Irish Revolution’s overlooked history of nonviolent resistance
The founding of the Irish Parliament was a path-breaking event in the emergence of nonviolence.
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Published in: TransformationWhy Gandhi’s ideas continue to thrive, even in the post-truth era
Faced by a global dearth of alternative ideas, it’s no wonder we are turning again to the Mahatma for inspiration.
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Published in: TransformationMeet the activist who brought Monopoly Man to life
Behind the fake mustache and provocative message is a dedicated activist for economic justice.
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Published in: TransformationLessons on building democracy after nonviolent revolutions
Why do some nonviolent revolutions end in democracy while others do not?
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Published in: TransformationFive ways new social movement leaders are effecting change
The Parkland students and others are reinventing models for people-powered activism that adapt to today’s rapid pace...
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Published in: TransformationIt’s time to go on the offensive against racism
Nonviolent direct action campaigns that stay on the offensive can build vision-led movements that win.
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Published in: TransformationThe everyday power of movement activism
Activism is normal; what’s strange is that we don’t see it that way.
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Published in: TransformationHow does change happen? One man’s journey through the personal and the political
The first step to building a new world is to start living it, but don’t stop there.
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: TransformationIs it time for voluntary poverty?
Alternative forms of charity could have a deeper impact on the forces that underpin moral and social transformation.
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Published in: TransformationFifty years later, the spirit of the Catonsville Nine lives on
Those who burned hundreds of draft files to protest the Vietnam War deserve to be honored, remembered and emulated.
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Published in: TransformationCan antifa build an effective broad-based anti-fascist movement?
Using violence and suppressing free speech is no way to build a just society.