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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 ...
3 years after the first global school strike, signs of the youth ...
Mar 17, 2022 · Embed from Getty Images. Three years ago this week — on March 15, 2019 — an estimated 1.4 million young people and supporters in 128 countries skipped school or work for what was then the largest youth-led day of climate protests in history.
The quiet rollout of Cop Cities across the US meets a growing ...
Sep 9, 2024 · On June 11, a week after a police training facility in Richmond, California, broke ground, organizers from the Stop Cop City Bay Area Coalition marched to the Overaa Construction headquarters in protest. Citing concerns over rising police militarization and repression in the predominantly Black and Latino area, the protesters — joined by local residents — called on Overaa workers to ...
Poems to get out the vote - Waging Nonviolence
Salaam alaykum, to all our neighbors. Vote and know that, we all creators. Of the world we deeply need. So vote and fight to get free. She said. Vote and laugh and vote and work, Vote and heal where you feel it worst, Vote and love on the earth. Vote and respect all moms.
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 ...
Rape, rape culture and the problem of patriarchy
Apr 29, 2014 · Rape, rape culture and the problem of patriarchy. To confront the reality of rape and rape culture is to realize that vigorous prosecution of the small number of men who rape doesn’t solve the larger problem. By the end of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, two key questions were on the table for those who not only are aware of rape but would ...
Why I regret casting an antiwar protest vote in the 1968 election
6 days ago · Robert Levering October 30, 2024. Protestors hold signs at an anti-war rally in New York, New York, Fall 1968. The visible signs read 'Dump Humphrey,' which shows a photograph American Vice President Hubert Humphrey in a garbage can, and 'War Criminals are Un-American,' which shows a caricature of Vice President Humphrey.
What role were you born to play in social change?
Feb 3, 2016 · With Moyer’s permission, I tweaked the names of three of the four roles, making the differences sharper; you’ll get both names here. I call the roles advocate, helper, organizer, and rebel. The advocate role. The advocate focuses on communication with what Moyer called “the powerholders,” who can change a policy or practice.
Now is the time to send unarmed peacekeepers to Palestine
May 28, 2024 · The Security Council could take months — if ever — to make a decision, and even then, it would be prone to send armed peacekeepers. Unarmed civilian protection and accompaniment groups have, for years, been successfully carrying out the activities described by the UNSC and HRC. We must accelerate this people-to-people response.