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.
By Akin Olla, Waging Nonviolence
While many see Occupy as a failure or victory for the left, Momentum understands it as a lesson that needs to be dissected and understood.
By Daniel Henryk Rasolt, Earth Island Journal
The non-linear combined efforts of professor-activists like Dussán and integrated systems researchers like Angarita are helping to shift the tide against mega-dams in Colombia, paving the way for a more just and sustainable energy transition.
By Yavor Tarinski, Towards Autonomy
I think these are the two conflicting urban visions today: the one is about a top-down enforced homogenization and zoning of the city, and then there is the possibility for the citizens themselves to engage autonomously in morphing their urban environment.
By Marzena Zukowska, Red Pepper
Love builds social movements. It is the connective tissue of collective action. And its potential is revolutionary.
By Aaron Karp, Resilience.org
The body politic was sick long before the virus arrived, already at risk of collapse under the weight of its elite hierarchies. When its fever breaks, we must learn the right lessons about how to overcome the underlying issues that threaten its very existence.