Lessons from what Cesar Chavez did right — and wrong
WEBApr 7, 2014 · Cesar Chavez on strike. (Flickr/Jay Galvin) The recent release of Cesar Chavez: An American Hero, and the premiere of the documentary Cesar’s Last Fast at the Sundace Film Festival, give us new opportunities to reflect on the lessons of Chavez’s life of activism. While his charismatic leadership turned him into a powerful force for justice, an unyielding grip on his position of authority ...
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How one organization is keeping the spirit of Occupy Wall Street …
WEBSep 23, 2021 · Ten years after Occupy Wall Street introduced the ideas of the 99 percent against the 1 percent, the movement is finally getting its due. An Atlantic article’s headline last week read “Occupy Wall Street Did More Than You Think,” while a New York Magazine article by authors and organizers Astra Taylor and Jonathan Smucker led with “Occupy Wall Street Changed Everything.”
How anti-Vietnam War protests thwarted Nixon’s plans and saved …
WEBNov 12, 2019 · On Oct.15, 1969, more than two million citizens took part in the Moratorium — a one-day national strike against the war. In hundreds of cities, towns and campuses throughout the country, people from all walks of life took the day off to march, rally, vigil or engage in teach-ins. Until the Women’s March of 2017, the Moratorium held the ...
The successes and failures of South Africa’s student movement
WEBJun 29, 2017 · The "Fees Must Fall" movement that rocked South Africa last year is not over, as students demand a complete transformation of the education system. South Africans were not surprised by the emergence of the “Zuma Must Fall!” call which manifested in huge protests in April and May 2017. We are accustomed to protest at many levels, from the ...
Inside the struggle to stop the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline
WEBPhil Wilmot April 26, 2024. A protest targeting the financiers of EACOP. (Twitter/StopEACOP) In 2006, oil speculators finally stumbled upon a long-sought reserve under Lake Albert in midwestern Uganda. President Yoweri Museveni, who had already been in power for 20 years, eagerly declared that production would commence in 2009.
Why indigenous civil resistance has a unique power
WEBJul 8, 2017 · This case draws out a number of elements of Native civil resistance that Hastings explores throughout the article, in addition to treaty rights leverage: the strategic importance of nonviolent discipline, the power of media in shaping the outcome, the key supportive role that can be played by non-Native allies (as well as by indigenous allies ...
Remembering Grace Lee Boggs and her role in the black freedom …
WEBOct 6, 2015 · Grace Lee Boggs at her home in Detroit in February 2012. (Wikimedia / Kyle McDonald) President Obama joined many this week in commemorating the life of Grace Lee Boggs, the organizer, philosopher and long-time Detroit resident who passed away yesterday at age 100. “As the child of Chinese immigrants and as a woman, Grace learned early on that the world needed changing, and she overcame ...
These six global struggles show the power of nonviolence in action
WEBFeb 3, 2021 · Embed from Getty Images. In today’s media world — especially if you live inside the U.S. media bubble — if you hear news about foreign countries, it tends to be about business, political leaders, wars or disasters.
How Hitler found his blueprint for a German empire by looking to …
WEBOct 7, 2020 · Native peoples in the United States continue to struggle for justice. While this year brought some important victories, such as Washington’s NFL team finally dropping its racist name and logo, and a landmark win in the Supreme Court for Native rights in McGirt v. Oklahoma, the difficult work of recognizing and redressing the country’s legacy of oppressing its first inhabitants continues.