We live in an era where a single hashtag can spark a global revolution. The way people organize, protest, and demand change ...

Social media has provided a dynamic avenue for activists to spread their messages and reach a wider audience on the global stage. Large social movements, like the Black Lives Matter Movement, have ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Trump Administration has come in with brute force, attacking working people and institutions from all angles. Its “flood the zone” strategy has left many feeling confused and powerless. But the ...

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, ...

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 ...

The U.S. and many other societies are cycling into situations of toxic polarization today; discussion, let alone consensus, often appears impossible and the advantage goes to exclusionary social ...

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 ...