How anti-Vietnam War protests thwarted Nixon’s plans and saved …
Nov 12, 2019 · Robert Levering. Robert Levering was a full-time anti-Vietnam War organizer from 1967 to 1973. He was an adviser to the 2020 film, “The Boys Who Said NO!” about the draft resistance movement, and the Executive Producer of “The Movement and the ‘Madman’” a documentary about the impact on Nixon of the Moratorium and …
These six global struggles show the power of nonviolence in action
Feb 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.
Lessons from what Cesar Chavez did right — and wrong
Apr 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 ...
As students go back to school, staff strike for better pay and ...
Aug 25, 2022 · As students across the country return to their classrooms for the 2022-2023 academic year, teachers and other employees have been raising the alarm over widespread staffing shortages, low pay, safety concerns and unfair contracts. On Monday, over 500 staff members at American University in Washington, D.C. kicked off a five-day strike demanding ...
Gandhi’s strategy for success — use more than one strategy
Mar 17, 2017 · Gandhi’s strategy for success — use more than one strategy. How creating a healthy “ecology of change,” as Gandhi did in India, can help propel social movements. At the end of 1930, India was experiencing disruption on a scale not seen in nearly three quarters of a century — and it was witnessing a level of social movement ...
In the face of assassinations and paramilitary terror, the Zapatista ...
Aug 2, 2021 · Chiapas, a state in southeastern Mexico bordering Guatemala, was the epicenter of the 1994 Zapatista uprising. On Jan. 1,1994 — the effective date of the North American Free Trade Agreement — the insurgents of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, or EZLN, seized five county towns in the state at dawn, declaring a struggle for …
3 years after the first global school strike, signs of the youth ...
Mar 17, 2022 · Embed from Getty Images. Three years ago this week — on March 15, 2019 — an estimated 1.4 million young people and supporters in 128 countries skipped school or work for what was then the largest youth-led day of climate protests in history.
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100 years later, lessons from the sufferin’ suffragettes
Mar 3, 2013 · 100 years later, lessons from the sufferin’ suffragettes. 100 years ago today was the watershed 1913 women's suffrage march. It's the perfect moment to reflect on the strategies and tactics of amazing suffragettes. Nadine Bloch March 3, 2013. Centennial reenactment of women’s suffrage protest at the White House.
How South Africa forced Gandhi to reckon with racism and …
Oct 1, 2019 · Although having arrived in South Africa to settle a legal dispute, Gandhi became a novice community organizer at the age of 34. His early efforts there on behalf of the Indian community generally involved incremental entreaties …