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The Largest Protests In US History Are Happening Now

March 28, 2018 Heather Dockray, Mashable.com Resist! Guns, Protests, Social Movements

Though final count is still being tabulated, researchers Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman of the Crowd Counting Consortium estimate that over 1.25 million people across the United States participated in Saturday's March for Our Lives protest, making it one of the largest youth-led protests in American history, at least since the Vietnam War. Beyond youth-led protests, March for Our Lives is also poised to become one of the biggest protests, period, in American history, surpassed only by the Women's March in 2017, where an estimated 4.15 million people participated, and the Women's March in 2018, where anywhere from 1.6 to 2.5 million people participated domestically. These numbers aren't an accident. A combustible array of variables, including the rise in authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism worldwide and technology that makes it easier to organize sibling marches, have contributed to historic turnouts.

How To Build A Progressive Movement In A Polarized Country

March 17, 2018 George Lakey, Wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Ideology, Progressivism, Social Movements

Whether it’s assault rifles, racial justice, immigration or fossil fuels, the country is rocked by conflicting narratives and rising passions. In a recent national poll, 70 percent of Americans say the political divide is at least as big as during the Vietnam War. In December, I completed a year-and-a-half book tour in over 80 towns and cities in United States. From Arizona to Alaska to North Dakota to Georgia, I heard a worry in common from people active in struggles for justice. They talk about the political polarization they see around them. Many assume that polarization is a barrier to making change. They observe more shouting and less listening, more drama and less reflection, and an escalation at the extremes. They note that mass media journalists have less time to cover the range of activist initiatives, which are therefore drowned out by the shouting. From coast to coast activists asked me: Does this condition leave us stuck?

Pipeline CEOs Lament Anti-Oil Movement Slowing Pipeline Construction

March 14, 2018 By James Osborne, Chron.com Resist! Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Social Movements

For more than a century oil and gas pipelines were built beneath the United States with nary any notice from the public. But pipelines executives lamented Wednesday that since the rise of the "Keep it in the Ground" movement, projects were being delayed by a rising tide of protests, litigation and vandalism. "The level of intensity has ramped up," Kinder Morgan CEO Steven Kean said Thursday at the CERAWeek energy conference hosted by IHS Markit. "There's more opponents, and it's more organized." Speaking onstage with fellow pipeline CEOs Kelcy Warren, of Energy Transfer Partners, and Russ Girling, of TransCanada, Kean recounted how a group of environmentalists closed the valves on their pipeline network in the western United States in what appeared to be a coordinated effort across multiple states.

Anti-Protest Legislation: Implications For Social Movements

March 10, 2018 Staff, Rightsanddissent.org Educate! Class Struggle, Legislation, Repression, Social Movements

Since the end of 2016, nearly 60 bills have been proposed in state legislatures which limit the right to protest or remove liability for harm caused to protesters. This wave of anti-protest legislation comes in the aftermath of the success of recent social movements for labor rights, racial justice, and environmental protections. Lawmakers, in conjunction with certain think tanks, corporations, and law enforcement agencies, have proposed legislation designed to increase penalties for individual protesters and the organizations that support them. Join us for this free webinar Wednesday March 14th from 7-8:30pm EST to learn more about the contents of these bills, their political implications, the interest groups behind them, and how to stop them from becoming laws!

Tree-Sitting To Stop The Mountain Valley Pipeline

March 9, 2018 The Final Straw Radio, Earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Social Movements, Virginia, West Virginia

This week, Bursts spoke with Birch and Judy, two folks involved in the Tree Sits on Peter Mountain along the Appalachian Trail on the border of Virginia and West Virginia. The tree sits are operating in order to block the Mountain Valley Pipeline or MVP. Before all of the permits have been ok’d, contractors with the help of local law enforcement have been clearing the path for the pipeline. This preparation would include 3,800 feet blasted through the mountains or if that didn’t work the blasting of a trench that length through the mountains. We also talk about the ACP, or Atlantic Coast Pipeline, in this conversation and the connections between the two projects and their resistance.

Battle In The Bayou

March 8, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Steemit.com Resist! Environment, Louisiana, Pipelines, Social Movements

From the front lines of the oil pipeline fight in Louisiana. In oil and gas soaked Louisiana, a coalition of groups and individuals are standing up and in the way of the latest dirty energy project. This week on Act Out! we head down to the Bayous of Louisiana to get the latest on the fight against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Speaking to organizers and residents on the front lines, we'll dive into updates and news, the rich and diverse history of those fighting and how in the present, they're coming together not just to fight – but to build a future together.

Huge Organizing Effort, ’40 Days Of Action’ Launching To Fight Poverty

March 5, 2018 By Eleanor J. Bader, Alternet.org Resist! Class Struggle, Poverty, Social Movements

The Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the recently launched Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of three kids in a family she describes as deeply committed to improving life for the excluded and marginalized. South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other peace and anti-apartheid activists were frequent guests in her home, and even as a child, Theoharis understood that religious faith—in her case, Presbyterian—had to be linked to social justice. This coupling—faith and justice—led Theoharis to work with the National Union of the Homeless as a University of Pennsylvania undergraduate. “Their organizing was inspired by the Poor People’s Campaign led by Dr. King in 1967 and ’68, and I quickly learned the extent of the unfinished business that still needed to be done,” she begins.

Why Training Women In Nonviolent Resistance Is Critical To Movement Success

March 3, 2018 Marie Berry and Erica Chenoweth, Wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Nonviolence, Social Movements, Women

In the year since Trump’s inauguration, we have seen an outpouring of popular mobilization in resistance to his administration’s policies. Crowd estimates suggest that 5.2-9 million people took to the streets in the United States to protest Trump’s policies or points of view over the past year. Many more have mobilized worldwide in reaction to the rise of right-wing populist movements across the globe, using people power to contest entrenched authority and confront oppressive regimes and systems. Women have been at the forefront of these efforts. The 2017 Women’s March on Washington — whose Sister Marches spanned all 50 states and dozens of other countries — was likely the biggest single-day demonstration in recorded U.S. history. The momentum continued in 2018, with between 1,856,683 and 2,637,214 people marching in Women’s Marches this year.

Parkland Students Build Social Media Campaign

February 28, 2018 By Sarah Beauchamp, Bustle.com Organize! Guns, Social Movements, Youth Activism

Just 10 days ago, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior went viral after calling "B.S." on the National Rifle Association for its role in keeping semi-automatic weapons legal in the United States. This Emma González Twitter update proves that the teenager, and the movement she's quickly becoming the face of, is not going away any time soon: the vocal gun control advocate only joined the social media platform this month, and she's already amassed more followers than the gun lobbying group. González, who first went viral after giving a powerful speech at a gun rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, just days after the massacre, has passed the 1 million-follower mark on Twitter. The NRA has roughly 600,000 followers, and its top spokesperson, Dana Loesch, has around 800,000. Loesch and González got into a heated debate at a CNN town hall following the Parkland shooting.

Stopping Mass Shootings: Less Finger Pointing, More Action

February 26, 2018 By Rivera Sun, Riverasun.com Create! Mass Shootings, Social Movements

In the wake of yet another school shooting, everyone from ordinary citizens to pundits to politicians seem to be engaged in one of our favorite and least effective responses: finger pointing and passing blame. It’s like a toxic and deadly game of hot potato. The NRA shrieks and throws the blame onto mental health. Mental health advocates holler and toss it toward schools and parenting. Teachers and parents reel in grief and horror and throw the issue at politicians. Legislators try to drop the issue as their donors and lobbyists screech at them – or they lob it at their opposition like a political weapon. Shirking our responsibilities on this issue is negligent, egocentric, and at this point in our crisis, utterly shameful. Mass shootings do not have silver bullet solutions. There is no single change we can make that will end this tragic horror that haunts our communities.

How We Fight Fascism

February 20, 2018 Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com Resist! Class Struggle, Fascism, Social Movements

In 1923 the radical socialist and feminist Clara Zetkin gave a report at the Communist International about the emergence of a political movement called fascism. Fascism, then in its infancy, was written off by many liberals, socialists and communists as little more than mob rule, terror and street violence. But Zetkin, a German revolutionary, understood its virulence, its seduction and its danger. She warned that the longer the stagnation and rot of a dysfunctional democracy went unaddressed, the more attractive fascism would become. And as 21st-century America’s own capitalist democracy disintegrates, replaced by a naked kleptocracy that disdains the rule of law, the struggle of past anti-fascists mirrors our own. History has amply illustrated where political paralysis, economic decline, hypermilitarism and widespread corruption lead.

On Resistance: BDS And Israel’s Declining Support Among Diaspora Jews

February 14, 2018 Stanley L. Cohen, Counterpunch.org Resist! BDS, Israel, Social Movements

Like its predecessor movement decades ago in South Africa, assessing the success of BDS against Israel today necessarily rubs up against the tension between Israeli hasbara (propaganda) and its reality as an effective organizing tool against it throughout the world. Though Israel has repeatedly claimed BDS has proven to be a failed venture, it’s a contention very much in desperate search of fact. Indeed, one need only look at the hundreds of millions of dollars that Israel has spent in various anti-BDS efforts to discern that its impact is not just productive, but poses a dynamic threat to the status quo ante of the state. Why else would it continue to invest such large, indeed, increasing amounts of money against a movement that it asserts has had no cognizable impact upon its policies or its future?

From Facebook To Policebook

February 10, 2018 By Andre Damon, Wsws.org Educate! Facebook, Social Media, Social Movements

On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a notice outlining extraordinary plans by the social media company to monitor all the postings and messages of its users, censor independent journalism, and use artificial intelligence (AI) to report users to the police and intelligence agencies. Zuckerberg began his post, released in conjunction with the company’s quarterly earnings report, by declaring that 2017 was a “hard year” for Facebook. “The world feels anxious and divided—and that played out on Facebook. We’ve seen abuse on our platform, including interference from nation states, the spread of news that is false, sensational and polarizing, and debate about the utility of social media.” Facebook, he writes, has the responsibility to “amplify the good and prevent harm. That is my personal challenge for 2018.”

Dreamers’ Struggle For Justice Continues

February 9, 2018 Elise Foley, Huffingtonpost.com Resist! Immigration, Social Movements, Undocumented

WASHINGTON — Last September, Karla Aguirre left her family and her South Carolina hometown and boarded a flight to Washington, D.C., to fight for her right to remain in the United States. It was supposed to be a short trip — there was bipartisan support in Congress for measures to protect undocumented immigrants like her. But more than four months later, she’s still here. “There’s no reason for me to go back home where things are going to be exactly the same,” Aguirre, 22, said. “The point of us being here is to make a change. ... This is my work, to make sure that my family is OK.” Aguirre is one of hundreds of undocumented young people who have uprooted their lives to advocate for a bill that would grant them legal status and a path to citizenship. In the nation’s capital, they sleep in churches, houses and, less often, hotels.

Populism Of Hope Begins When People Feel Their Own Power

February 8, 2018 Nathan Schneider, Yesmagazine.org Strategize! Populism, Social Movements

The waning years of the 1800s bore an uncanny resemblance to the present. The U.S. economy was transforming and globalizing, leaving behind many hardworking people. Then, as now, a populist uprising was underway in national politics against politics as usual. Then, as now, tough-talking contenders tried to position themselves as spokesmen for the people. That earlier populism shared many of the complaints about widespread economic stagnation and urban elites that animated voters in 2016. But, rather than in the apocalyptic preaching of a reality TV star, the movement’s backbone lay in feats of economic self-help. And this made all the difference. The proposals those populists sought called for fuller democracy, not authoritarian retrenchment. This was a populism of hope, not a populism of fear.

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