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Published in: TransformationWhat role were you born to play in social change?Successful social movements include advocates, helpers, organizers and rebels in equal measure.
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Published in: TransformationWhy understanding the history of nonviolence is essentialWe devote countless time to learning about wars and violence, but little to nonviolence. Two new books rectify this.
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Published in: TransformationHow to make love revolutionaryIf you are only attracted to able, 'mentally well', cis, normatively beautiful people, from class privileged...
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Published in: TransformationWhy understanding gut reactions is key to building powerful social movementsActivists need to recognize and utilize their intuition as well as their rational minds.
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Published in: TransformationThe legend of Greenham Common women's peace campGreenham was an alternative world, an anti-nuclear protest by hundreds of thousands of women activists. At 'Bringing...
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Published in: TransformationSix key messages about sexual violence in UK activist communitiesThe Salvage research project listens to survivors of activist sexual violence: here's what they've learned.
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Published in: TransformationWhat happens when soldiers stop believing in war?Nan Levinson's new book dispels the myth that those who fight in wars also support them.
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Published in: TransformationHow to stop competing and start building communityTo get the most out of a community, you need a shared strategy, a space to grow, and to practice liberation.
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Published in: TransformationNotes from Kabul'Not following the rules is how they have survived': a powerful meditation on life in the Afghan capital.
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Published in: TransformationHijacked emotions: fighting terrorism with loveLove requires us to think of terrorists as people. We need to look beyond terrorist acts to the exploitation of...
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Published in: TransformationLove versus fearWhat does movement building look like in a time of terror?
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Published in: TransformationCups of love and cups of courage: facing up to the everyday realities of violenceStructural solutions are vital, but real security starts inside each one of us.
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Published in: TransformationWhat the Holocaust can teach us about the migrant crisisA Kindertransport refugee reflects on genocide, and what it means in a Europe dealing with advancing Islamophobia...
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Published in: TransformationStopping war comes from each of us: Arun Gandhi on his grandfather MahatmaPeace activist Arun Gandhi reflects on the enduring wisdom of his grandfather, the Indian spiritual and political...
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Published in: TransformationShaker Aamer and the future of GuantanamoHis fear, to his last days at Guantanamo, was that he would not make it out alive.
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Published in: TransformationIs Harry Potter the atheist's bible?Google can find you a glib answer to 'the meaning of life' in 0.44 seconds - but where do you go to find real...
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Published in: TransformationNelson Mandela: an exemplar of lifelong learningLearning—wide, deep and never-ending—lies at the core of personal and political transformation.
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Published in: TransformationWhy South Africa's gold miners are suing their bossesTens of thousands of gold miners are suffering with diseases like silicosis, tuberculosis and HIV. In the mines,...
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Published in: TransformationWhy I glued myself to a ticket barrier and shut down the EurostarLast Friday I joined 300 migrants' rights protesters gathered at St Pancras station, spilling fake blood and...
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Published in: TransformationLearning to love us-versus-them thinkingOppositional thinking is crucial to social change, but there are no permanent enemies.
