This article explains the “pillars of support” framework, and it provides a case study of how movement impacts can be tracked through a variety of social institutions.
The strengths and limitations of prefigurative politics.
Despite the demonstrated power of sacrifice and disruption, it is rare that groups risk either in significant measure — and even rarer that the two are combined in thoughtful and creative ways
A look at how the "Alinsky model" of community organizing was formed, and how its founder was more flexible than the tradition's tenets may suggest.
This article, first published in 2014, discusses how the tradition of civil resistance understands the interplay of activists’ “skills” and historical “conditions.” It also gives an overview of the concepts of “trigger events” and “moments of the whirlwind,” using the events that led up to the fall of the Berlin Wall as a backdrop.
A short column written on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.