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Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

Is Muhammad Yunus selling ''free market'' neoliberalism in the guise of liberal do-gooderism?

From fare strikes to sick outs, movements are deploying a variety of creative tactics to disrupt business as usual.

Does Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine hold water?

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.

Talk to Ai-jen Poo about her work and it won't be long before you hear language you don’t often hear in the midst of intense social movement campaigning.

Reconsidering Poor People's Movements in the wake of mass uprising.

Lessons from late-Cold War cinema for the post-9/11 era.

Like those of Black Lives Matter activists today, King’s methods were widely criticized—even when they were effective.

Where insider politics fails, a transformational approach can turn the impossible into the inevitable.