Activism / Why we need a freedom agenda. Peter Olney and David Bacon The night Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York ...

The search for the “right line” or debates about the “agent of history” continues to shape the inner life of radical movements and consumes tremendous energies better spent organizing. But there is an ...

The division in the Democratic Party today isn’t so much about ideology. It’s more about strategy: Should the party be a coalition or a movement? What’s the difference? A coalition brings together ...

A mass movement can mobilise around strategic campaigns with instrumental demands - and around prefigurative campaigns with symbolic demands. You have to educate the public, including the base, about ...

The American labor movement currently stands at one of its lowest points in history. Barely one-tenth of all workers belong to a union—down from more than one-third in the 1950s. Over the past ...

A group of African American anti-segregation demonstrators run for safety as they are sprayed with high-pressure water from fire hoses during a civil rights march in Birmingham, Alabama. The Civil ...

Businesses that change the culture–instead of just campaigning for sales–will transcend individual products by inspiring customers to something greater than just mindless consumption. The Ice Bucket ...

Jenny Nicholson has been hired as senior vice president, creative and strategic innovation at Movement Strategy. The social-powered agency tapped the AI educator and creative technologist for her ...

With the election of Donald Trump, environmentalists find themselves bracing for their worst possible scenario at the worst possible time. Only recently, the world has made slow but steady progress in ...

A sociologist at Drexel University, Robert Brulle’s research focuses on the strategy and funding patterns of what he calls “the climate change countermovement.” Brulle says that since the late 1980s, ...