Having experienced recent mass mobilizations, some community organizers are interested in questioning the old divide between "movements" and "organizations"—and in harnessing the power of both.
Yearly Archives
2014
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Lessons from the Salt March for today's social movements.
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Published in Conflits Sans Violence.
Le 11 février 2011, le président égyptien, Hosni Moubarak démissionnait suite à un mouvement puissant contre son régime dictatorial. Cette date marquait le point culminant d’un soulèvement parmi les plus soudains et importants du …
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Published in Lebenshaus.
Nur wenige wissen, dass Martin Luther King, Jr. einmal eine Genehmigung zum Tragen einer versteckten Handfeuerwaffe beantragt hat.
Der Juraprofessor Adam Winkler von der UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) schreibt 2011 in seinem …
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Reconsidering Poor People's Movements in the wake of mass uprising.
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Where insider politics fails, a transformational approach can turn the impossible into the inevitable.
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The strengths and limitations of prefigurative politics.
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Can theories of movement cycles equip activists to persevere over the long haul?
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Despite the demonstrated power of sacrifice and disruption, it is rare that groups risk either in significant measure — and even rarer that the two are combined in thoughtful and creative ways
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People Power Brought Down the Berlin Wall—Can it Defeat Corporate Rule?
by Mark Englerby Mark EnglerCan people power also be successful in defeating the more diffuse evils of oligarchy and corporate rule?