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How to Make Sure Your Disruptive Protest Helps Your Cause
Learn about the five factors that will influence whether a polarizing protest will strengthen your movement or potentially undermine it. Part 2 on polarization from Mark Engler and Paul Engler.
Why Protests Work, Even When Not Everybody Likes Them
First in a two-part series explaining protests and polarization. This first part breaks down why protests can be polarizing and how movements can win in moments of polarization, the second part covers what factors determine if a polarizing action will be successful.
How a Black Mayor Took on a Racist Political Machine
40 years ago, Chicago’s first Black mayor shattered status-quo politics in his city, offering insights that remain relevant for grassroots movements today.
Strategy Is a Craft
A conversation with Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce about their new book, Practical Radicals, and the need for the left to embrace a rigorous, multi-pronged strategy for change.
Think #MeToo didn’t make a real difference? Think again.
How #MeToo changed the world and the feminist movement.
A Social Justice State
Scholar and long-time organizer Janice Fine argues that the state must reject “neutrality” and embrace social movements as partners in promoting justice.
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.
Lessons from Gramsci for Social Movements Today
Gramsci's political thoughts and pragmatic strategies have yielded a collection of ideas that can be argued to have become even more relevant over time.
Lessons from Barcelona’s 8-Year Experiment in Radical Governance
The activists who took over the city hall of Catalonia’s capital have changed one of Europe’s preeminent cities for good, while also confronting the limits of being in power.
Can movements keep politicians from inevitably selling out?
By understanding how mainstream political culture co-opts elected officials, grassroots groups can help them resist.
What’s the problem with taking state power?
As social movements move beyond the default anarchist sensibility that prevailed through Occupy, they must still reckon with hard questions about bureaucracy and cooptation.
Los Angeles Is Creating a Model for Fighting Mass Incarceration
In the past five years, abolitionists and advocates of criminal justice reform in Los Angeles County have amassed some impressive victories—laying out a vision for reducing incarceration and providing care that could have national significance.
How movements can maintain their radical vision while winning practical reforms
Forty years of struggle by Brazil's landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
Should we disrupt the Democratic Party or try to take it over?
How movements settle the debate on whether to engage with political parties from the inside or outside will have a profound impact on their effectiveness.
Making Our Demands Both Practical and Visionary
How social movements are employing the concept of the “non-reformist reform” to promote far-reaching change
Can social movements realign America’s political parties to win big change?
In claiming the goal of "realignment," groups such as Sunrise and Justice Democrats are reviving an old idea, with hopes of provoking new political transformations.