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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.

How creating a “healthy ecology of change” can help propel social movements.

A wave of disruptive protest fifty years ago helped put women’s liberation on the map–and showcased a radical feminist vision of that remains relevant in the age of Trump. By…

Lessons from the George W. Bush years.