This piece was originally published at Waging Nonviolence. The good news is that there are clear historical examples in which social movements have been able to step into the vacuum of a crisis. COVID ...

A well-established youth collective in the Global South is planning its next action, and its members are in conversation with a nongovernmental organization (NGO, or, in the United States, nonprofit) ...

Can an alliance of social movements defeat racist legislation and authoritarian takeover? What happened a decade ago in North Carolina provides inspiration for what we need to do in the US today. In ...

Pope Francis compared popular movements to the Good Samaritan, and said that these two things reminded him of the protests which happened because of the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man ...

It has never been clearer that ideas germinated by social movements exert great force in law and politics in the United States. Examples from the left abound over the last decade. Occupy Wall Street ...

The past several years have seen dramatic growth in social movements demonstrating their dissent through public mass mobilization and acts of civil disobedience, from Black Lives Matter and Fridays ...

We are thrilled to share the Professor Deb Cantrell recently released her book, Emotions, Activism, and Social Change. The book explores the role of anger in social activism, drawing from sociology, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim McClimon writes about philanthropy and corporate responsibility. Two recent reports paint a very different picture of what ...

Given how social media has been a part of most people’s everyday lives, it should not be surprising to us that social movement can be accomplished effectively online. In this post, my student, Sarah ...

Given how social media has been a part of most people’s everyday lives, it should not be surprising to us that social movement can be accomplished effectively online. In this post, my student, Sarah ...