Social Movements

If the country is to be redeemed, it will depend on those who dissent—those who are now using their bodies to blockade bridges and highways.

Despite the demonstrated power of sacrifice and disruption, it is rare that groups risk either in significant measure — and even rarer that the two are combined in thoughtful and …

Can people power also be successful in defeating the more diffuse evils of oligarchy and corporate rule?

Every so often, we witness a period of mass insurgency that seems to defy the accepted rules of politics

Savvy organizers use mass actions as choice opportunities for recruiting.

Lessons from the Salt March for today’s social movements.

The use of militarized police squadrons has long been an escalating and racially loaded trend.

Fifty years ago the Civil Rights Act was passed into law in the United States.

Three years after the resignation of Mubarak, the Egyptian Revolution provides a perfect example of what mass, disruptive protest can accomplish—and what it can’t.

If politicians in Washington, DC refuse to talk about our warming planet, how do we shift the climate of national debate?