This raises an interesting question with regard to the current administration: Does this analogy hold for how Trump has ...

Leading civil resistance scholars Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks have described the need for a “large-scale, multiracial, cross-class, pro-democracy front.” And Maria Stephan, writing for Just Foreign ...

At the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War in Ho Chi Minh City, U.S. activists reflected on what the movement can ...

Developed in Central America during the 1980s, accompaniment strategies show how movements can reduce attacks and resist state repression.

Of course, Hitler never realized his full vision. As the tide of war turned, and the vast former Soviet lands he planned to colonize slipped from his grasp, the Nazi strategy shifted away from the ...

Understanding the relative power matrix Let’s take a closer look at how this relative power matrix works. In the corner of each quadrant, there are mechanisms of change or ways in which you can bring ...

In these moments, activists who had previously faced a drought of public interest now find themselves in a torrent. The rules of ordinary politics seem to be suspended. And movements that can ...

Anyone who has come across “ Why Civil Resistance Works ” by Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan will be familiar with the idea that size matters for social movements. Their highly cited “3.5 percent ...

Now is the time to act With the attack on Israeli civilians by Hamas on Oct. 7 or the targeted killing of World Central Kitchen staff by IDF drones on April 1, it is fair to ask why unarmed civilian ...

Robert Levering Robert Levering was a full-time anti-Vietnam War organizer from 1967 to 1973. He was an adviser to the 2020 film, “ The Boys Who Said NO! ” about the draft resistance movement, and the ...

This work will take significant investment in collective care, relational organizing within and across our movements — and with pillars that have powerful constituencies. We will also need to bolster ...