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The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.
Jeremy Brecher, author of the labor-history classic Strike!, considers the recent wave of teacher walkouts, how we can overcome America's "strike drought," and the future role of mass disobedience in democratic politics.
An article highlighting how the legendary organizer navigated tensions between multiple organizing traditions.
There is no need to wait for resistance. It is happening now.
Smart organizing during whirlwind moments seeds the ground for new waves of action in the future.
From fare strikes to sick outs, movements are deploying a variety of creative tactics to disrupt business as usual.
In the mid-1980s, Central American solidarity activists developed a model for building resistance before disaster strikes. Their efforts may have stopped a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.
The great theorist of disruptive power explains the concept of "dissensus" and how social movements prod elected officials into action by taking controversial stands.