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The Evidence for Pronoia Is So Enormous It's Hard to Imagine

darin wrote 2 days ago: In his book Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, … more →

Tags: Images, chris jordan, mandala, Paul Hawken

Squat Tourismus?

alexanpv wrote 3 days ago: A couple of friends of mine sent me a link to the latest Guardian/Observer travel article on squats … more →

Tags: Politics, Berlin, Squatting

Reflections on Citizen Movements: Peace and Politics in the U.S and Japan | Thirteen Forum

activistingredient wrote 3 days ago: This Video features Tom Hayden, James Orr, and Amy Goodman as they discuss framing of and stages of … more →

Tags: Theory, Strategy, Peace, Video, Tom Hayden, james orr, amy goodman, Japan, Movement Action Plan

social movements, cooptation, and coevolution2 comments

fabiorojas wrote 4 days ago: The Journal of American History ran a kind review of From Black Power to Black Studies. Here’s … more →

Tags: Fabio

The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

activistingredient wrote 5 days ago: A discussion about new media and person2person (p2p) networks that looks at 1) how to organize witho … more →

Tags: Strategy, Tactics, P2P, Social Networks, Social Move, twitter, Indymedia

How Protests Work: winning struggles and goals by protesting

activistingredient wrote 5 days ago: Here is a quote by Sidney Tarrow from “Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements” tha … more →

Tags: Strategy, activism, Protest, Sidney Tarrow, Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, elites, political opportunity, Reforms

Study finds racial difference in prevalence of political advocacy organizations

mariosmall wrote 1 week ago: Sarah Reckhow’s “The Distinct Patterns of Organized and Elected Representation of Racial … more →

Tags: Immigrants, Non-profits, organizational density, Political Organizations, What to Read

San Francisco Budget Wars 2009

jamesrtracy wrote 1 week ago: (This is the first installment of a series of posts on the San Francisco City Budget and campaigns … more →

Tags: US Politics, Housing/Displacement, San Francisco Politics, Homelessness, Direct action, Disability Movement, Elections, Labor, populism

Golpe de Estado in Honduras: A 'Moment'

Daniel Schmidt wrote 1 week ago: Guns on the roof: Snipers readied to kill fellow civilians in the golpistas name at the Tegucigalpa … more →

Tags: Honduras, Feature, Protest, non-violence, Zelaya, OAS, Tegucigapla International Airport, Honduran Constitution, Political violence

Whale Wars and Strategy2 comments

activistingredient wrote 1 week ago: This week I was introduced to a show on Animal Planet called “Whale Wars”, which tracks … more →

Tags: Strategy, Animal Planet, environmental activism, Environmentalism, Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Social Movement Organization, TV Show, whale wars

Tom Hayden - Long War Needs a Long Peace Movement2 comments

KevinMartin wrote 2 weeks ago: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/long-war-needs-long-peace_b_224154.html The simultaneous co … more →

Tags: Afghanistan, Congress, democracy, Imperialism, iraq, media, middle east, obama, Terror

Network Studies

bjbailie wrote 2 weeks ago: Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action Eds. Mario Diani and Doug … more →

Tags: CCR 690, Network Studies, agency, Deleuze, Diani, Galloway, guatari, mcadam, Networks

Video on Social Movement Networks

activistingredient wrote 2 weeks ago: The following lecture (video and slides) is a great introduction to thinking about social movement n … more →

Tags: Strategy, Video, Environmentalism, Anti-environmentalism, environmental activism, environmental social movements, Social Movement Network, battling networks, Patrick Doreian

FSI09: The Future of Civil Resistance1 comment

Patrick Philippe Meier wrote 2 weeks ago: The final presentation at the Fletcher Summer Institute (FSI) for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent C … more →

Tags: Conferences, Civil Resistance, nonviolence, Repressive regimes

Personify or perish4 comments

gdirector wrote 3 weeks ago: At the end of my last post, I casually threw out the idea that people relate to people not organizat … more →

Tags: brandemix, Marketing, Non-profit, NpO, Personality

"Chaordic"

AxXiom wrote 3 weeks ago: “Chaordic” What I Love Best About The Ron Paul/Liberty Movement I have been studying sl … more →

Tags: activism, Ron Paul, Liberty, chaordic, dee hock, aa, chaos, emergence, Open-Source

fisking miller and rachman's revolutionary check-list10 comments

Sean Safford wrote 3 weeks ago: The Economist’s Andrew Miller, a.k.a. Bagehot, has engaged Gideon Rachman of the Financial Tim … more →

Tags: Political Science, Sociology, Current Events

twitter revolution3 comments

brayden wrote 3 weeks ago: Noam Cohen had an article in the NY Times over the weekend assessing the function of Twitter in the … more →

Tags: brayden, Networks, Political Science, The Man

Create Ambiguity, Not Certainty

jordioni wrote 3 weeks ago: Geoff Writes: My last post, regarding using stories to inspire movements by creating dissonance in p … more →

Tags: social marketing BRANDEMiX


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