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The Republican party is about to face the wrath of women
Women aren’t just mad – they’re organized and mobilized politically in a way we’ve never quite seen before If there’s cause for hope in these horror-show days, it’s this: the Republican party has no idea what’s about to hit it this November.
The Rising of the Women
Sometimes a single protest can change the whole mood of a movement. There have been more than twenty thousand demonstrations all around the United States since Trump took office, far more than at any prior time in American history. Record numbers of people have marched and rallied—anywhere from ten to fifteen million have taken to the streets over the past year and half to express their disgust and anger with the racism, misogyny, corruption, and cruelty of this rogue Administration.
The Resistance Is Blossoming, and It's Built to Last | RealClearPolitics
The Resistance Is Blossoming, and It's Built to Last
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A longtime movement insider's powerful account of the origins of today's protest movements and what they can achieve now As Americans take to the streets in record numbers to resist the presidency of Donald Trump, L.A. Kauffman’s timely, trenchant history of protest offers unique insights into how past movements have won victories in times of crisis and backlash and how they can be most effective today.
In 1971 the People Didn't Just March on Washington—They Shut It Down
In 1971 the People Didn't Just March on Washington—They Shut It Down The following is an excerpt from L.A. Kauffman's new book, Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism (Verso, 2017). This excerpt was originally published on Longreads.com. If the government won’t stop the war, we’ll stop the government. The largest and most audacious direct action in US history is also among the least remembered, a protest that has slipped into deep historical obscurity.
The New Militant Minority
Since the publication of in 1973, Stanley Aronowitz has been one of the most important left critics of the official US labor movement. His latest book, The Death and Life of American Labor , builds on and synthesizes much of this previous work, and is a provocative contribution to discussions of the road out of organized labor’s current crisis. At the core of The Death and Life of American Labor is a powerful critique of “bureaucratic business unionism” — the strategy of the US labor officialdom.
Turkey After Gezi
Today, 550 members of the Turkish national assembly (TBMM) will be elected. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), which have taken the country in both an Islamist and neoliberal direction, are seeking a commanding majority. If the AKP secures enough seats, Erdoğan will push for constitutional change that would transform the Turkish political system from a parliamentary government into a presidential one, granting him sweeping executive powers.
The Theology of Consensus
Consensus decision-making, a process in which groups come to agreement without voting, has been a central feature of direct action movements for nearly forty years, from the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s to the turn-of-the-millennium global justice movement to 2011’s Occupy Wall Street. Instead of voting a controversial plan up or down, groups that make decisions by consensus work to refine the plan until everyone finds it acceptable.
Berkeley Journal of Sociology
Consensus decision-making, a process in which groups come to agreement without voting, has been a central feature of direct action movements for nearly 40 years, from the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s to the turn-of-the-millennium global justice movement to 2011’s Occupy Wall Street. Instead of voting a controversial plan up or down, groups that make decisions by consensus work to refine the plan until everyone finds it acceptable.
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