Tag: protests
Midwest voices rise: Historic Jewish-led protest for Gaza ceasefire in Chicago
Over 100 arrested in a peaceful demonstration in Chicago; unprecedented Midwest support for ceasefire.
How ideology can help (or hurt) movements trying to build power
Political educator Harmony Goldberg discusses whether the ideological traditions of the left are helpful for practical organizing.
How protests that double as trainings are growing this fossil fuel...
The activists represented a broad coalition of grassroots organizations that had come to Malvern to stage an intervention over Vanguard’s $300 billion investments in fossil fuels.
‘Absolutely insane’: Greg Abbott seeks pardon for man convicted of murdering...
"Now the man who killed Garrett Foster, while Foster protested George Floyd's murder, will be pardoned. George Floyd's pardon is still stuck with the Board of Pardons. If a fiction author wrote this, no one would believe it."
What determines the success of movements today?
The importance of timing, external factors and luck certainly leave some open questions.
This is one of the best times in history to be...
“Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny.”
Iran: A winter-spring anti-romance
To achieve a more orderly and just transition in Iran, a ceasefire is needed in the winter-spring standoff between the revolutionary generation of 1979 and the revolutionary generation of today.
Lessons for nonviolent activism in an era of digital authoritarianism
The world’s dictatorships are exporting repressive technologies and collaborating as they adapt to the digital era—activists should do the same.