activism

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  5/25/2023
  

  "Salts" are Part of Labor's Fight to Organize. They were once Part of the Antiwar Movement

  by Derek Seidman

  Taking a job with the covert intention of organizing the workplace is a time-honored labor tactic that's back in the news. Some dedicated activists in the 1960s "salted" the U.S. military in the hopes of building an antiwar movement within the ranks. 

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• 12/11/2022
  

  Kyrie Irving Just the Latest Outspoken Athlete to Go Rogue

  by Greg Kaliss

  It's entirely fair for the Nets' guard to face criticism for his boosting of an antisemitic film, but the uproar carries the risk of silencing athletes who might otherwise use their public platforms for political advocacy. 

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• SOURCE: The Connector (Substack)
  8/4/2022
  

  Connections, Capacity, and Impact: Strategic Thinking About Political Action

  by Lara Putnam

  The work of Democratic Party strategists is aimed at winning campaigns through a "cost per vote" calculation. Citizens who want to protect democracy need to think about deeper organizing. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/21/2022
  

  Visible Activism Key to Protecting Trans People From Discriminatory Laws

  by Shay Ryan Olmstead

  The legal strategies that LGBT groups have used to defend their rights and dignity in society may be less effective with hard-right judges on the bench. Direct action and activism outside the courts will be needed to make sure that the right doesn't use the law to target trans people for political gain. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  3/22/2022
  

  Is "Regulation from Below" Possible? Historian Rebecca Marchiel on Community Housing Activism

  "Marchiel’s narrative paints the picture of a remarkably powerful national reinvestment campaign against an almost unstoppable force of ever more inventive flows of capital. Perhaps the lesson should have been that capitalism refuses to work for people."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/15/2022
  

  A Teenager Got More Women of Color Represented in the History Curriculum of a Large School District

  "Prasidha Padmanabhan, 16, founded WEAR (Women for Education, Advocacy and Rights), a nonprofit with an executive board made up entirely of students."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/26/2021
  

  Do Liberal Activists Need to Reconnect with the Religious Left?

  by Julian Zelizer

  The rise of conservatism in Christian political engagement and the increasing importance of Israel to many American Jewish organizations should not discourage liberal activists from reviving the legacy of Rabbi Abraham Heschel and interfaith social justice organizing. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/14/2021
  

  From the Labor Struggles of the 1930s to Today, the Highlander School has Sought to Make America More Equitable

  by Jelani M. Favors

  From the Great Depression through the Civil Rights era and beyond, Myles Horton's Highlander Folk School was a rare interracial space for political organizing. 

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• 6/20/2021
  

  Powerline Politics in the 1970s and Today

  by Tyler Priest

  Environmental activists have forged anti-pipeline alliances with rural landowners using the issue of eminent domain. History shows that this might boomerang if farmers oppose the new electric transmission lines that will be needed to implement green electrification. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  5/20/2021
  

  In Fury We Trust (Review of Sarah Shulman)

  Sarah Shulman's book seeks to recover the histories of AIDS activists beyond white gay men, using two decades of oral history work to show the breadth of a coalition including women, lesbians, people of color, drug users, and the incarcerated, who all experienced the stakes of AIDS differently. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/7/2021
  

  The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  Organizer Mariame Kaba is one of the leading public intellectuals behind the movement for the abolition of the institutions of policing and prisons and for a politics that imagines more humane alternatives. 

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• SOURCE: Money on the Left Podcast
  5/1/2021
  

  Remaking Radicalism with Dan Berger and Emily M. Hobson

  Historians Dan Berger and Emily Hobson discuss their new primary source anthology on grassroots social movements in the last quarter of the 20th century. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/16/2021
  

  Dorothy Pitman Hughes’s Activism Offers a Solution for the Coronavirus Gender Gap

  by Laura L. Lovett

  Dorothy Pitman Hughes' experience running a community childcare center highlighted not just the needs of working women, but the ways that childcare challenges were connected to all the big issues of the society. If we want a more just society today, Hughes' example and the COVID crisis show us where to look. 

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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: New York Times
  9/8/2020
  

  The Forgotten History of the Radical ‘Elders of the Tribe’

  by Susan J. Douglas

  The Gray Panthers fought for the civil rights, social services and respect denied to older Americans. But they did so by challenging inequality in ways that sought alliances instead of antagonism between young and old. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  9/9/2020
  

  Scholars on Strike

  Scholars in multiple fields have taken part in a virtual teach-in, sharing expertise on racism and justice as part of the #ScholarStrike.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/8/2020
  

  Why We Started the #ScholarStrike

  by Anthea Butler and Kevin Gannon

  As American history shows, there are times where the most powerful way that workers can force an issue or work for change is to withhold what others see as their most important feature: their labor.

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• 9/1/2020
  

  The Faculty Network for Student Voting Rights Announces its Launch, September 3, 2020

  A group of historians has launched a new group dedicated to making sure that college students are able to exercise their right to vote. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/7/2020
  

  100 Years Later, These Activists Continue Their Ancestors’ Work

  The New York Times highlights a group of contemporary scholars, writers who are direct descendants of leading figures in the movement for women's suffrage and racial equality in voting rights.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/27/2020
  

  Before Stonewall, There Was a Bookstore

  by Jim Downs

  Networks of activists transformed Stonewall from an isolated event into a turning point in the struggle for gay power.