Democracy Now!Narco News TV, May 15, 2013 In 1985, Mkhuseli "Khusta" Jack organized a consumer boycott in the city of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, which helped end racial apartheid. In 2000, Oscar Olivera was the spokesperson for a popular resistance that stopped t...
Noor Ali Moa'alla, Your Middle East, May 16, 2013 The discourse around the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in film has shifted recently from the wider scope of the conflict to the stories of communities and individuals that are struggling in their day to...
Sven Pöhle, DW, May 14, 2013 Markus Löning, the German government’s human rights commissioner, said in a recent interview that nurturing democracy in other countries takes patience. When asked about what to do if democratization of countries like T...
Alice Driver, School of Authentic Journalism, May 15, 2013 The important role Mary King played in helping to advance the struggle for women’s rights is a lesser known story of how the success of one social movement, the U.S. civil rights struggle, he...
Joanna Lillis, EurasiaNet, May 16, 2013Avalanche is a tale of a village whose inhabitants walk on eggshells because their rulers have convinced them that if they flout strict rules governing their everyday lives, they will spark an avalanche that will ...
By Mark Trekson Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left, by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, isn’t exactly beach reading, but to those interested in a novel effort to link a wide range of political theory to practical … Continue reading →
Last Thursday night’s event at the New York Public Library got a whole lot funnier when about 50 people staged a laugh-in against Mexican businessman Carlos Slim.
Claudine Renaud, Mail and Guardian, May 13, 2013 Voters have begun registering for elections in Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarchy, with unions calling for a boycott of a "rubber-stamp" poll of the autocratic rule of King Mswati III. "We call o...
Leila Nachawati Rego, Global Voices, May 13, 2013 More than two years into the Syrian uprising as the battle continues on the ground, a new outspoken and creative Syria has emerged after decades of isolation and silence. From strikes to sit-ins, from c...
Didi Kirsten Tatlow, NY Times, May 13, 2013 Liao Minyue last saw her mother, the rights activist Liu Ping, in mid-April, a few weeks before Liu was taken away by security officials on charges of subversion. “Now I’m waiting for any news of her tria...
Aatish Taseer, NY Times, May 11, 2013 Four years ago this week, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam announced that their struggle for an independent homeland in northern Sri Lanka had “reached its bitter end.” The Tamil defeat has less to do with ...
Raghad Jaraisy, +972 Magazine, May 13, 2013 In the Occupied Territories, protestors can and need to stand up for their rights and fight for the opportunity to demonstrate. When the automatic suppression of protests is the norm, it is important to know ...
Political sociologists and social movement scholars have often commented on the overly broad definition of “political opportunities.” Many have called for specifying the nature of political opportunities especially so as to better operationalize and link political opportunities to policy outcomes … Continue reading →
Happy Mother’s Day to all our New York City friends. As you celebrate all the powerful women and mothers in your life, take a minute to become a supporter of Waging Nonviolence — and receive a free ticket to an early preview screening of Robin Blotnick and Rachel Lears’ documentary The Hand That Feeds.
Alex Hanna has a recent post over at Bad Hessian about the potential value of a newly released dataset, GDELT, for the study of social movements. GDELT stands for Global Data on Events, Location and Tone, and is a news-based events … Continue reading →
Every once in a while I come across something that gives me hope for our energy future. It cries out, "people are smarter than we seem." The latest example comes from an article in "Sierra" magazine. Jong Bok Kim, a researcher in chemical ...
