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In Praise of Impractical Movements
Three Times When the World Broke Open– and Two When it Might Again
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ArticlesThe Massive Immigrants Rights Protests of 2006 are Still Changing Politics
Popular uprising have ramifications that go beyond immediate legislative results, and they can alter the climate of political debate.
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ArticlesMartin Luther King Jr. Was a Disruptor, Not a Peacemaker
Like those of Black Lives Matter activists today, King’s methods were widely criticized— even when they were effective.
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ArticlesWhy MLK Chose Not to Run for President
Like Bernie Sanders today, Martin Luther King, Jr. considered launching a presidential campaign to oppose military interventionism and promote democratic socialism. Here’s why he decided against it.
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ArticlesCan Frances Fox Piven’s Theory of Disruptive Power Create the Next Occupy?
Reconsidering Poor People’s Movements in the wake of mass uprising.
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ArticlesWould Saul Alinsky Break His Own Rules?
After Occupy and other mass uprisings, some community organizers are interested in questioning the old divide between “movements” and “organizations”—and in harnessing the power of both.
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ArticlesWhen Martin Luther King Gave Up His Guns
It took years of political evolution for King to understand nonviolence not merely as a moral force, but as an effective strategy for leveraging political change.