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Published in: TransformationHow I stopped watching porn for one year and why I'm not going back
I remember when I first discovered internet porn – I was 17 years old. Fascinated by this world of unleashed sexual...
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Published in: TransformationThe limits of non-cooperation as a strategy for social change
Civil disobedience is vital, but it is insufficient to transform society. A new science of cooperation illuminates...
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Published in: TransformationWhy we need radical love to create change
Living on an isolated island with my dog, it was a departure to find myself with 4,000 other LGBTQ people at the...
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Published in: TransformationFive movies that show the power of nonviolent resistance during World War II
Hardly a year goes by without at least one new Hollywood film about the Nazis and World War II. But these offerings...
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Published in: Transformation“Being poor is not a crime:” transforming the struggle for housing rights worldwide
From singing in New York courtrooms to gluing door locks in Berlin: the struggle to protect housing rights is about...
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Published in: TransformationMy friend's hunger strike against force-feeding at Guantanamo
“There are places on this earth where color has absconded.” One man’s protest against force-feeding at the...
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Published in: TransformationNelson Mandela knew when to talk and when to fight
To effect social transformation, fighting is essential, but if we take fighting too far then we risk destroying what...
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Published in: TransformationFrom guns to gardening: ending the illegal arms trade
Illegal firearms, mostly smuggled in from the USA, are fuelling violence in Mexico. In response, thousands of guns...
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Published in: TransformationSmashing egoism: against flashpoint action
For many anarchists, real liberation manifests itself through flashpoint: sudden, unannounced acts of violence....
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Published in: TransformationA flashpoint action reading list
Today Transformation published the first article in our debate on flashpoint action. Yalla Matame argued that...
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Published in: TransformationWhat's the point of flashpoint action?
Flashpoints are moments of resistance - often violent - against systems of oppression. Can such actions build social...
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Published in: TransformationCan religion be a force for transformation?
Growing up with an abusive father, Ouyporn Khuankaew learned a distorted version of the Buddhist teaching on karma:...
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Published in: TransformationVeganism and compassion
Veganism is often seen as a vain attempt to dismantle market demand for animal products, one block of tofu at a...
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Published in: TransformationJoy arises, rules fall apart: thoughts for the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street
In these moments of rupture, people find themselves members of a "we" that did not until then exist, at least not as...
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Published in: TransformationOrganizing as whole people
There are no shortcuts to building the kind of power it takes to win meaningful change. As an organizer in a county...
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Published in: TransformationReclaiming nonviolent history
In conventional histories, violence is generally celebrated. National memorials glamorize death, bloodshed and...
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Published in: TransformationChanging sides doesn't always make for transformation — just look at Egypt
What is the best kind of defection? During Egypt's recent turmoil there was too much collusion between nonviolent...