By Cathy Rogers, Waging Non-Violence
Building on the recommendations of other movement strategists, new research from the Social Change Lab offers key insights into the factors that lead to protest wins.
By Maria J. Stephan, Waging Non-Violence
May we continue to embrace King’s powerful advice that we pursue multiple, connected lanes in order to achieve racial justice and multiracial democracy.
By Marianne Dhenin, YES! magazine
Labor activists take steps to preserve the documents and strategies they use today, so future organizers will have a practical guide.
By Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence
Social movements are stronger when they sing. That’s a lesson that has been amply demonstrated throughout history, and it’s one that I have learned personally in working to develop trainings for activists over the past decade and a half.
By Mark Engler, Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence
Should we maintain independence and function as a critical force outside of mainstream politics, or should we attempt to take hold of the levers of institutional power in order to create change?
By Mark Engler, Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence
Those promoting co-governance describe it as a new relationship between social movements and the candidates they help win office — a partnership in which activists and elected officials work to maintain a long-term relationship, closely coordinate strategy and advance grassroots priorities.
By David Lambert, Resilience.org
I have taken to heart the insight that possibly, the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis; that we see this thing we call ‘the climate’ through a window whose frame is itself the product of our toxic culture.
By Samuel Alexander, The Simplicity Institute
Can civil disobedience ever be justified in a democracy? How does Extinction Rebellion relate to other social movements in history that have also practiced civil disobedience to advance social progress?
By Mark Engler, Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence
Ever since it launched its first audacious land occupations in the mid-1980s, in which groups of impoverished farmers took over unused estates in Southern Brazil and turned them into cooperative farms, the Landless Workers Movement has stood as one of the most innovative and inspiring social movements in the world.
By Vicki Robin, Billy Wimsatt, Resilience.org
Billy Wimsatt is founder and Executive Director of the Movement Voter Project, an organization that works to strengthen progressive power at all levels of government. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Mark Engler, Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence
When trying to figure out how they should interact with political parties, social movements face a common challenge: Should they push from without or seek to operate from within?
By Amandeep Sandhu, YES! magazine
The Indian farmers’ protest is a model for all struggling people worldwide. Their relentless and sustained protest shows that a sure resolve, control of resources, and perseverance is key to winning against neoliberal forces worldwide and ushering in a world where working people are the focus of national economic policies.