social movements

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  4/27/2022
  

  The Fatal Siloing of Abortion Advocacy

  by Meaghan Winter

  It was a strategic mistake for abortion rights advocates to emphasize the right to individual choice instead of the vast issues of economic justice, workforce quality, educational equity and personal safety that are impacted by whether women can control their own reproduction. 

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• 4/24/2022
  

  Footage in NYC's Archives Sheds Important Light on the Northern Civil Rights Movement and Police Efforts to Undermine It

  by L.E.J. Rachell

  Surveillance footage in the New York City Archives helps to highlight the importance of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to the northern civil rights movement – and the techniques the NYPD used to disrupt it. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/19/2022
  

  These Books Tell of Change Happening Slowly, then Suddenly

  Historians Lynn Hunt, Adam Hochschild, Kate Clifford-Larse and Keenaga-Yamahtta Taylor are among the authors whose books dig beneath the surface of famous leaders to describe how social movements built the strength to change laws, institutions and ideas. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  2/23/2022
  

  The Beginnings of Queer Citizenship in West Germany

  by Samuel Clowes Huneke

  An emerging gay activist culture in West Berlin in the 1970s made substantial gains in building cultural spaces and expanding tolerance, but struggled to build political solidarity out of sexual identity amid other social divisions.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/1/2022
  

  The Truth About Prohibition

  by Mark Lawrence Schrad

  American historians have often identified Prohibition with a coalition of social reformers, nativists and religious fundamentalists. Looking at the international temperance and prohibition movement tells a different story of a fight against exploitation of workers and minority groups through addiction.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  12/8/2021
  

  Rise And Fall Of A Movement — A Review Of “The Young Lords: A Radical History”

  by Leo Valdes

  Johanna Fernandez's history of the Puerto Rican activist organization reconstructs the movement's roots and shows that an organization formed in 1969 still offers a useful diagnosis of an "urban crisis" rooted in experiences in housing, schools, hospitals, and jails. 

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• SOURCE: KQED
  10/11/2021
  

  Historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Structures of Racial Inequality and Social Movements Fighting It

  “In the United States, it’s very stark that the past is not yet past. Problems that we think of as historical in fact continue to impact our lives on a daily basis.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/12/2021
  

  When the Young Lords Took Over a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care

  by Emma Francis-Snyder

  "The dramatic takeover of Lincoln Hospital produced one of the first Patient’s Bill of Rights, changing patients’ relationship with hospitals and doctors nationwide."

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• 8/29/2021
  

  Climate, Peace, and Health Require International Solidarity. Is it Possible to Build It?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  "Although there are no guarantees that social movements and enhanced global governance will transform our divided, problem-ridden world, they should provide us with at least a measure of hope that, someday, human solidarity will prevail."

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  6/25/2021
  

  An Oral History of the Lesbian Avengers

  The Lesbian Avengers organized and demonstrated in the 1990s to fight homophobia and sexism within the movement for queer liberation.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  3/17/2021
  

  The Future of L.A. is Here. Robin D.G. Kelley’s Radical Imagination Shows Us the Way

  Historian Robin Kelley discusses the work of his mentor Cedric Robinson, whose discussions in "Black Marxism" offer a way to circumvent the reductionist tendencies of the class- and race-oriented wings of the left today. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/25/2021
  

  Fight To Vote: The Woman Who Was Key In 'Getting Us The Voting Rights Act'

  Historian Carol Anderson explains the contributions of Amelia Boynton to the Selma movement and the erasure of women's organizing work from many histories of the movement. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  10/13/2020
  

  A Scholar of American Doom Doesn’t See How Capitalism Can Fix This Crisis

  "There are probably a billion and a half people, maybe more, maybe 2 billion, in the informal working class who have simply been triaged already in advance. So the fate of a very large minority of humanity has been determined now."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/25/2020
  

  The Case to End the Supreme Court as We Know It

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The Supreme Court has historically supported democratic and egalitarian change only when forced by social movements. People must stop looking to the power invested in the court and start looking for the power latent in themselves. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/24/2020
  

  The Forgotten Feminists of the Backlash Decade

  Lisa Levenstein's book assesses a shift in the women's movement in the 1990s into digital spaces and professionalized issue organizations. A reviewer considers what that shift enabled women to achieve and what it cost. 

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  6/27/2020
  

  Scholar Robin D.G. Kelley on how Today’s Abolitionist Movement can Fundamentally Change the Country

  "Part of defunding the police is a recognition that the police, as constituted, make life more dangerous for vulnerable populations even as it creates a sense of false safety for white people."

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• 6/14/2020
  

  Where Was Such Solidarity Two Weeks Ago?

  by Frederick Gooding, Jr.

  The author is skeptical of the sudden wave of "performative solidarity" by white individuals and corporate America. Ensuring that Black Lives matter will require solidarity in the long term.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/12/2020
  

  A Short History of Black Women and Police Violence

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Despite, or perhaps because of, their own vulnerability to state-sanctioned violence, black women have been key voices in the struggle to end it.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/9/2020
  

  The Black Women Who Paved the Way for This Moment

  by Keisha N. Blain

  The prominence of black women in today's protests is not a sudden development. In taking to the streets in support of their goals, they are building upon a rich tradition of black women’s organizing.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/5/2020
  

  A ‘Good’ Protester is Just a ‘Bad’ Protester in the Misty Rearview Mirror

  by David S. Meyer

  The comparison drawn between "good" and "bad" forms of protest usually draws on oversimplified historical comparisons and is often intended to justify ignoring the substantive problems animating protests.