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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. 

Published in Waging Nonviolence.

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In the opening two months of his presidency, Donald Trump …

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.

Scholar and long-time organizer Janice Fine argues that the state must reject “neutrality” and embrace social movements as partners in promoting justice.

Political educator Harmony Goldberg discusses whether the ideological traditions of the left are helpful for practical organizing.

Why we should care about the battle for “hegemony.”

The activists who took over the city hall of Catalonia’s capital have changed one of Europe’s preeminent cities for good, while also confronting the limits of being in power.