What Makes Nonviolent Movements explode?
Why are some protests ignored and forgotten while others explode, dominating the news cycle for weeks and becoming…
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After the Climate March, What’s Next?
The People’s Climate March made history on September 21 when 400,000 people paraded through the streets of mid-Manhattan. “It’s…
Thousands Turn Out For Ferguson October
Photos by Ellen Davidson Text by Alina Mogilyanskaya “Hands up, don’t shoot!” “Black lives matter!” These have become the clarion…
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Rallies, Blockades, Hunger Strikes Greet Deportation Milestone
We now know that 2 million people have been deported under the Obama administration. We’re saying enough of that!”…
The Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance Takes Off
“It’s time to put our foot down,” the retired career Marine said with calm conviction. He — like the…
In Historic Turn, Sierra Club Gets Arrested For the Climate
What happens when people from the nation’s largest and oldest environmental organization — the kind that sends cute nature…
West Bank Village Resists, Week after Week
Mohammed returned to the central square of his village in a small caravan of cars with his friends. Their…
Antiwar Veterans Plan Dec. 16 Civil Resistance at White House
Antiwar veterans, led by Veterans For Peace, will converge on the White House December 16 for what they hope…
‘Why did you go to jail yesterday?’
“Pop-pop?” I tunneled up from sleep, realizing that my six-year-old great grandson was at the foot of my bed,…