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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The successes and failures of South Africa’s student movement
Jun 29, 2017 · AFP JOHN WESSELS. 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 daily service delivery protests that disrupt traffic, to the disruption of Parliament by the Economic Freedom Fighters, or EFF. On ...
To succeed, movements must overcome the tension between …
Jul 29, 2015 · However, a movement’s wish to draw on the power of both rationality and emotion poses a challenge for trainers, who are influenced by middle-class bias and traditional education. Class and the academy push trainers to privilege rationality and ignore the wellspring of emotion. Fortunately, action reasserts the need for both, and training is ...
Women lead charge to break silence against uranium mine
Oct 5, 2015 · Lakota women and ranchers lead charge to break silence against uranium mine. In a region of Nebraska ripe with stories from the brutal Indian wars, allies from all sides of history are joining forces in the effort to protect their water. Suree Towfighnia October 5, 2015. Thousands of active uranium wells at the Crow Butte Resources mine in ...
Remembering Grace Lee Boggs and her role in the black freedom …
Oct 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 ...
The war economy is killing us — we need to build local peace …
Oct 8, 2024 · Subscribe to “Nonviolence Radio” on Apple Podcasts, Android, Spotify or via RSS. Jodie Evans, activist and co-founder of CODEPINK, talks with Stephanie and Michael about possibility of creating and sustaining the “peace economy.”
Martin Luther King's lessons on negotiation from the successful ...
May 8, 2017 · The campaign that ended segregation in Birmingham 54 years ago this week offers key lessons for those seeking to stop Trump's plans and win positive change.
Pro-Palestine student protesters navigate legal hearings and …
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The quiet rollout of Cop Cities across the US meets a growing ...
Sep 9, 2024 · On June 11, a week after a police training facility in Richmond, California, broke ground, organizers from the Stop Cop City Bay Area Coalition marched to the Overaa Construction headquarters in protest. Citing concerns over rising police militarization and repression in the predominantly Black and Latino area, the protesters — joined by local residents — called on Overaa workers to ...