A bold and irreverent protest 50 years ago put a renewed women’s liberation movement on the public map—and offers important lessons for today’s resistance.
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Social Movements
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Two of the most important recent developments in US politics have come from social movements involving schools. Each has a different look and generational profile, but they are united in a common tactic: the use of disruptive power.
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Taking down monuments to people who fought to defend slavery should not be controversial at all. Yet in the US today, it is.
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Progressives have to try to maximize the liberatory potential of a growing discontent.
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In the United States in the 1980s, the simple act of providing refuge became a form of civil disobedience. Three decades later, in the era of Trump, providing sanctuary may again qualify as a radical stance.
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Lessons from the George W. Bush years.
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On a protest that spread far beyond a single sport.
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The native-led resistance at Standing Rock has emphasized environmentalism of a different complexion than is typically associated with ecological activism in the United States.
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Stubborn and visionary got the goods.
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