These six global struggles show the power of nonviolence in action
Feb 3, 2021 · Embed from Getty Images. In today’s media world — especially if you live inside the U.S. media bubble — if you hear news about foreign countries, it tends to be about business, political leaders, wars or disasters.
Gandhi’s strategy for success — use more than one strategy
Mar 17, 2017 · Gandhi’s strategy for success — use more than one strategy. How creating a healthy “ecology of change,” as Gandhi did in India, can help propel social movements. At the end of 1930, India was experiencing disruption on a scale not seen in nearly three quarters of a century — and it was witnessing a level of social movement ...
How anti-Vietnam War protests thwarted Nixon’s plans and saved …
Nov 12, 2019 · On Oct.15, 1969, more than two million citizens took part in the Moratorium — a one-day national strike against the war. In hundreds of cities, towns and campuses throughout the country, people from all walks of life took the day off to march, rally, vigil or engage in teach-ins. Until the Women’s March of 2017, the Moratorium held the ...
Lessons from what Cesar Chavez did right — and wrong
Apr 7, 2014 · Cesar Chavez on strike. (Flickr/Jay Galvin) The recent release of Cesar Chavez: An American Hero, and the premiere of the documentary Cesar’s Last Fast at the Sundace Film Festival, give us new opportunities to reflect on the lessons of Chavez’s life of activism. While his charismatic leadership turned him into a powerful force for justice, an unyielding grip on his …
Harnessing the enormous untapped power of celebrity to help …
Feb 14, 2023 · Actors, artists, athletes and musicians who want to maximize their impact — as well as the movements that want to join with them in using celebrity power to advance campaigns for social justice — have a variety of intriguing options for how to remedy this lack of coordination and devise effective action.
3 years after the first global school strike, signs of the youth ...
Mar 17, 2022 · Embed from Getty Images. Three years ago this week — on March 15, 2019 — an estimated 1.4 million young people and supporters in 128 countries skipped school or work for what was then the largest youth-led day of climate protests in history.
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The successes and failures of South Africa’s student movement
Jun 29, 2017 · AFP JOHN WESSELS. South Africans were not surprised by the emergence of the “Zuma Must Fall!” call which manifested in huge protests in April and May 2017. We are accustomed to protest at many levels, from the daily service delivery protests that disrupt traffic, to the disruption of Parliament by the Economic Freedom Fighters, or EFF. On ...
As students go back to school, staff strike for better pay and ...
Aug 25, 2022 · As students across the country return to their classrooms for the 2022-2023 academic year, teachers and other employees have been raising the alarm over widespread staffing shortages, low pay, safety concerns and unfair contracts. On Monday, over 500 staff members at American University in Washington, D.C. kicked off a five-day strike demanding ...
How 1971’s Mayday actions rattled Nixon and helped keep …
Apr 29, 2021 · During one remarkable two week period — from April 19 to May 5, 1971 — more than a half-million citizens descended on the nation’s capital for the largest anti-Vietnam War rally, staging sit-ins that clogged entrances to several government agencies, camping out in a park where they put on a rock concert, and blocking streets and bridges that nearly shut down the city.