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The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.

Politicians regularly partner with business, when they should collaborate with grassroots movements.

There is no need to wait for resistance. It is happening now.

How to recognize the characteristics that make for powerful whirlwinds of protest against injustice and tyranny.

To compel Trump to reverse course, our job is to highlight political missteps, heighten public outrage and raise the political cost of implementing his radical agenda. 

Social movement ecology can help groups with different organizing traditions work together to pursue change in a time of hostile government.

Our job is to translate outrage over his agenda into action toward a truly transformational vision.

Five key factors determine whether controversial protests are more likely to spark backlash or create positive outcomes.

Organizers must learn to embrace the polarizing nature of protest in order to use it effectively.

It takes effort to track the impacts of mass mobilizations like #MeToo, Occupy or Black Lives Matter, but understanding social change is impossible without such work.