Social Movements

Smart organizing during whirlwind moments seeds the ground for new waves of action in the future.

Three Times When the World Broke Open—and Two When it Might Again

Now available from Nation Books.

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

Fifty years ago, a protest against the Miss America pageant kicked off a new phase of the women’s liberation movement. We present a narrative history of that landmark protest, as told by the participants themselves.

A conversation with directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera about their new film, The Infiltrators.

Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today's critics of neoliberal capitalism.

Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.

Organizers in labor, immigrant rights, and climate movements seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.

Thirty-five years ago, Central American solidarity activists developed a model for building resistance before disaster strikes. Their efforts may have stopped a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.