How mass protest created a breakthrough on the climate crisis in …
Oct 3, 2024 · Creating a trigger event and a moment of the whirlwind — a period in which social movements capture the political spotlight in a country in a major way and shift the terms of public debate — is a rare and important accomplishment. The initial rounds of Extinction Rebellion actions in the U.K. in 2018 and Sunrise’s public breakthrough in the United States the same year, as well as the ...
Lessons from what Cesar Chavez did right — and wrong
Apr 7, 2014 · Cesar Chavez on strike. (Flickr/Jay Galvin) The recent release of Cesar Chavez: An American Hero, and the premiere of the documentary Cesar’s Last Fast at the Sundace Film Festival, give us new opportunities to reflect on the lessons of Chavez’s life of activism. While his charismatic leadership turned him into a powerful force for justice, an unyielding grip on his position of authority ...
Waging Nonviolence
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Inside the struggle to stop the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline
Apr 26, 2024 · In 2006, oil speculators finally stumbled upon a long-sought reserve under Lake Albert in midwestern Uganda. President Yoweri Museveni, who had already been in power for 20 years, eagerly declared that production would commence in 2009.
How did Gandhi win? - Waging Nonviolence
Oct 8, 2014 · Gandhi during the Salt March, March-April 1930. (Wikimedia Commons/Walter Bosshard) History remembers Mohandas Gandhi’s Salt March as one of the great episodes of resistance in the past century and as a campaign which struck a …
The religious roots and political power of nonviolence
Jerry Folk. Jerry Folk is a retired clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He served as the Executive Director of the ELCA's Commission for Church in Society from 1987 to 1992 and as Executive Director of the Wisconsin Council of Churches from 1994 to 2003.
What role were you born to play in social change?
Feb 3, 2016 · George Lakey. George Lakey has been active in direct action campaigns for over six decades. Recently retired from Swarthmore College, he was first arrested in the civil rights movement and most recently in the climate justice movement.
10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won
Nov 4, 2024 · 2. Find others who you trust. I promise I’ll head towards practical resistance strategies. But the emotional landscape matters a great deal. Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism” explored how destructive ideologies like fascism and autocracy grow. She used the word verlassenheit — often translated as loneliness — as a central ingredient.
West Coast climate activists battle the false 'solution' of forest ...
Oct 8, 2024 · Trees as energy. An irony of the push to develop forest biomass is that it’s largely a response to policies meant to combat climate change. At industry conferences like CANOPY, turning trees into energy is seen as a way for companies to take advantage of government subsidies for renewables established in European and East Asian countries.
The girl who sparked Brown v. Board of Education
May 15, 2014 · A drawing of Barbara Rose Johns from the Morton Museum in Farmville, Va. (WNV/Morton Museum.) Sixty years ago on May 17, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1896 ruling in Plessy v.