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November 6, 2020
Micah L. Sifry
Grassroots Democrats Wanted to Protect the Vote. Then National Organizers Abandoned Them.
Resistance groups spent months planning for this week, but it devolved into infighting about how to answer Trump’s attempt to steal the election.
October 23, 2020
Isabel Cristo
The Bernie Organizers Who Want to Elect Biden—Then Defeat Him
A grassroots coalition is fighting like hell to build power for the left. Securing a Democratic win this presidential election is a necessary detour on that path.
July 24, 2020
Jo Livingstone
What the Americans With Disabilities Act Has to Teach Today’s Protesters
The forgotten intersectionality of disabilities activism
June 24, 2020
Jo Livingstone
A Dream of Lasting Solidarity at the Dyke March
Marching this year was a reminder that the mainstream LGBT movement still needs to cement its commitment to anti-racism.
June 17, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Political Power of Protests
How does direct action shape policy?
January 15, 2020
Magazine
Micah L. Sifry
The Loneliness of the Resistance Protester
Grassroots Democrats are marching and donating, but they are not forging a movement.
December 2, 2019
Mythili Sampathkumar
Thunberg Isn’t the Only Young Voice We Should Be Listening To
Many youth activists preceded her. Many others, with underprivileged perspectives, stand with her now.
September 5, 2019
Osita Nwanevu
The Grassroots Battle to Save Democracy
As Democrats ponder a number of necessary governmental reforms, an army of progressive organizations is building support among the electorate.
February 7, 2019
Magazine
Alex Press
Big Tech’s Unholy Alliance With the Pentagon
Why Google and other firms still cling to their military contracts
February 6, 2019
Magazine
Sam Adler-Bell
The Story Behind the Green New Deal’s Meteoric Rise
How twelve young activists forced a bold idea into the mainstream of the Democratic Party
November 8, 2018
Magazine
Micah L. Sifry
The Outsider Democrats Who Built the Blue Wave
Grassroots activists have organized a movement stronger than Obama’s, and the midterm elections were just the beginning.
May 18, 2018
Melody Schreiber
The Erin Brockoviches of Ecuador
For these women, environmentalism and women's rights are closely linked: Past drilling projects have resulted in increased assaults, cancer, and infertility.
April 11, 2018
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Hahrie Han
Building a Bigger Tent
An Ohio megachurch’s revival of religious community activism
February 16, 2017
Brian Beutler
Why the Left Needs to Keep Protesting Trump & Co.
Oprah, not activists, may have sunk labor nominee Andy Puzder. But arbitrary events don't set the zeitgeist like mass activism does.
February 7, 2017
Erica Chenoweth
Violence Will Only Hurt the Trump Resistance
History shows that civil disobedience and mass protests are more effective in the long run than black-bloc tactics.
February 1, 2017
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10 Ways to Take on Trump
What we can do, from Congress to the streets
June 20, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Last year saw the most killings of environmental activists on record.
December 17, 2015
Jamil Smith
Black Protesters Have Reinvigorated Campus Activism
Across the country, student protesters joined the fight for racial progress.
December 12, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
While politicians throw confetti, green groups are parsing the details of the climate agreement.
December 11, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Negotiators are still behind closed doors, but environmental activists are already pooh-poohing the climate deal.
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