Reviving song culture strengthens our capacity to create social change, and it can be an important tool for building healthy movement culture.
Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed.
Political scientists Frances Fox Piven and Daniel Schlozman have debated whether movements do better to put pressure on political parties from the outside, or to focus on gaining insider power themselves.
The concept of the "Overton Window" can help in understanding the impact of grassroots organizing.
As social movements move beyond the default anarchist sensibility that prevailed through Occupy, they must still reckon with hard questions about bureaucracy and cooptation.
On the history of the “non-reformist reform.”
How social movements are employing the concept of the “non-reformist reform” to promote far-reaching 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.
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.
Understanding the warring factions within the Democratic and Republican Party coalitions is critical for progressives who want to build power.