“Organizers will create the future.”
“The thing that I find fascinating in this moment, and different from the sixties, is that these protest movements are coming together.”
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Street Movements
The AAA Guide to Movement Building
Much of the debate on the left is about which is the right model of politics. But good activists are agnostic. They don’t have a theory of politics that is used in all places and at all times.
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To Make Protest About Power, Not Performance
There is still time to fundamentally influence the US presidential election. But we have to orient around that goal. We have to talk openly about that goal, and figure out what kinds of tactics we have to use in the streets to make it work.
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Photo Essay: Autonomous Trucker Strike in Russia
The nationwide strike by Russian truckers officially wrapped up on March 1, but Petersburg drivers have continued to maintain their makeshift protest camp.
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We Are Not Afraid
Persecution by the state keeps people on edge, which is one of the reasons people are so afraid to speak out. The fact that some are doing so now is really remarkable.”
Adapt or Die: The Flexible Future of Protest
“The end of protest” doesn’t mean the absence of protest. The end of protest means the proliferation of ineffective protest.
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Burma, a Revolutionary Crucible
“In Egypt in 2011, they were where Burma was in 1988. Burma has a very long history, now, of resistance to military rule, and different ways to go about that. It’s not just about getting millions of people into the streets. What do you do next?”
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Where White Supremacy and Patriarchy Intersect, #SayHerName.
Black women don’t come into view as victims of police brutality; they’re not seen as representative of how the entire community experiences racism. Nor do they come into view when the conversation is about violence against women, which of course police violence against black women is.
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Resistance in Azerbaijan
At least 33 human rights defenders, youth movement activists, bloggers, journalists and others have been jailed in the last year in Azerbaijan, where the UK-based oil group BP is the largest foreign investor.
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Allein Machen Sie Dich Ein
Eine Dokumentation der Zürcher Häuserszene von den frühen Anfängen bis 1994
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