Articles

Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.

Organizers in labor, immigrant rights, and climate movements seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.

Thirty-five years ago, Central American solidarity activists developed a model for building resistance before disaster strikes. Their efforts may have stopped a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.

Fifty years ago, a protest against the Miss America pageant kicked off a new phase of the women’s liberation movement. We present a narrative history of that landmark protest, as told by the participants themselves.

A bold and irreverent protest 50 years ago put a renewed women’s liberation movement on the public map—and offers important lessons for today’s resistance.

From fare strikes to sick outs, movements are deploying a variety of creative tactics to disrupt business as usual.

A new foreword to the paperback edition of Mark and Paul Engler’s This Is an Uprising.

Lessons from the fight against HIV/AIDS.

How feminists defeated sexist job ads at the New York Times.