( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Running an effective protest is hard. These are organisms with lives of their own. No one can really full plan an action. As we have seen this wave of protests though, people have done the grunt work to make them...
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I am having my students in my Protest and Resistance in America course tomorrow read and discuss work by the Rev. William Barber, the minister who leads the Moral Mondays.
Will Bunch on the protests in Chile and how they were caused by the same U.S. style neoliberalism that has also helped unhinge this nation. In 2019, as an autumn.
The union movement is a tremendously diverse and complex thing. Anyone who says "unions" should do this and that doesn't know what they are talking about, because these different worker organizations often have very little in common with each other, have different interests, vastly different...
Of course Daniel Pantaleo, the murderer of Eric Garner, got off scot-free. Of course he did. That's because cops are allowed to kill black people with impunity. On Tuesday, the.
This is a good remembrance of the Nicaraguan solidarity movement of the 1980s and how organizers did what they could to stop Reagan's illegal actions there. A few weeks later,.
Thirty years ago today, iconic protests against authoritarian regimes took place in both Poland and China. Their different trajectories have led to very different stories--and different silences. Here are some resources to track how both are being remembered in 2019. In Poland, years of organizing...
Liberals often have a very shallow understanding of how political change works. They think it is only about voting. We see this all the time on the liberal internet and.
Women with bright pink hats and signs begin to gather early and are set to make their voices heard on the first full day of Donald.
The Bourbon heir to the French throne has thrown his support behind the gilets jaunes protests. On Facebook. I'm mostly reeling from the revelation that Louis Alphonse de Bourbon, Duke of Anjou, dit Louis XX...
In part because of our 24-hour media culture, every political act is defined in terms of winners and losers, with each loss seemingly devastating. There is good reason for that--many.
While the right goes full fascism, writer after writer in mainstream publications, spills much more ink about the horrors of someone confronting Scott Pruitt or Sarah Huckabee Sanders in a.