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Occupy Wall Street’s Legacy Runs Deeper Than You Think

Former occupiers are working to transform the system from inside and out.
by Astra Taylor via Teen Vogue on December 17, 2019

Perhaps the World Ends Here

Climate disaster at Wounded Knee.
by Julian Brave NoiseCat via Harper’s on December 5, 2019

The Seattle Protests Showed Another World Is Possible

Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today’s critics of neoliberal capitalism.
by Mark Engler via The Nation on November 29, 2019
Police officer aims a gun at a handcuffed man on the ground.

The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.
by Peter Keating, Shaun Assael via Politico Magazine on November 3, 2019

The Greensboro Massacre at 40

Forty years after the Greensboro Massacre, a survivor talks about that day, and why organized workers are such a threat to the powerful.
by Rosalyn Pelles, Jordan T. Camp via Boston Review on November 1, 2019

Fifty Years Ago Today, US Soldiers Joined the Vietnam Moratorium Protests in Mass Numbers

Soldiers who had fought in Vietnam weren’t pitted against an anti-war movement — in fact, many were actually part of it.
by Derek Seidman via Jacobin on October 15, 2019
Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter rally.

Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?

Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Jacobin on October 9, 2019

The Hidden History of American Anti-Car Protests

The U.S. had its own anti-car movement, led largely by women, before the Dutch "Stop de kindermoord" movement of the 1970s.
by Peter Norton via CityLab on October 8, 2019

Reflections on a Silent Soldier

After the television cameras went away, a North Carolina city debated the future of its toppled Confederate statue.
by Robin Kirk via The American Scholar on September 3, 2019

Reviving the General Strike

Organizers seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.
by Mark Engler via The Nation on September 1, 2019

We Have Been Here Before

Japanese American incarceration is the blueprint for today’s migrant detention camps.
by Brandon Shimoda via The Nation on August 21, 2019

While NASA Was Landing on the Moon, Many African-Americans Sought Economic Justice Instead

The billions spent on the Apollo program, no matter how inspiring the mission, laid bare the nation's priorities.
by Bryan Greene via Smithsonian Magazine on July 11, 2019

What Could Go Wrong for Trump on July 4th? In 1970, Protests and Tear Gas Marred the Day.

"Honor America Day" was designed to showcase support for President Nixon at a time of bitter division.
by Ronald G. Shafer via Retropolis on July 2, 2019

The Imperfect, Unfinished Work of Women’s Suffrage

A century after the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists fought so hard, and who was fighting against them.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on July 1, 2019
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The Stonewall Riots Didn’t Start the Gay Rights Movement

Giving Stonewall too much credit misses the movement’s growing strength in the 1960s, sociologists note.
by Greggor Mattson via JSTOR Daily on June 12, 2019
A group of people celebrating Pride outside of Stonewall.

Stonewall: The Making of a Monument

Ever since the 1969 Stonewall Riots, L.G.B.T.Q. communities have gathered there to express their joy, their anger, their pain and their power.
by Cheryl Furjanic via New York Times Op-Docs on June 4, 2019

Bernie, the Sandinistas, and America's Long Crisis of Impunity

Or, the pros and Contras of relying on political reporters.
by Jonathan M. Katz via Mother Jones on May 30, 2019

The Artists and Writers Who Fought Racism With Satire in Jim Crow Mississippi

How William Faulkner and a small group of provocateurs challenged segregation in ways that resonate today.
by William Browning via Atlas Obscura on May 29, 2019
Upset students surround a victim of the Kent State shooting.

49 Years After Kent State Massacre, New Photos Revealed

Getty Images has released new photos of the Kent State shootings, 49 years after they happened.
by Tara Law via TIME on May 7, 2019

Edmund White on Stonewall, the ‘Decisive Uprising’ of Gay Liberation

At what point does resistance become the only choice?
by Edmund White via Literary Hub on April 30, 2019
Collage of old political cartoons related to the question of women's suffrage.

Massachusetts Debates a Woman’s Right to Vote

A brief history of the Massachusetts suffrage movement, and it's opposition, told through images of the time.
via Massachusetts Historical Society on April 26, 2019

How an Oil Spill 50 Years Ago Inspired the First Earth Day

Before Earth Day made a name for the environmental movement, a massive oil spill put a spotlight on the dangers of pollution.
by Lila Thulin via Smithsonian Magazine on April 22, 2019

How a Movement That Never Killed Anyone Became the FBI’s No. 1 Domestic Terrorism Threat

Behind the scenes, corporate lobbying laid the groundwork for the Justice Department’s aggressive pursuit of so-called eco-terrorists.
by Alleen Brown via The Intercept on March 23, 2019

The Artist-Activists Decolonizing the Whitney Museum

Protesters at the Whitney and other museums are demanding radical changes to the way the art world is governed.
by Daniel Penny via The Paris Review on March 22, 2019

How a Series of Jail Rebellions Rocked New York—and Woke a City

It has been nearly 50 years since New York’s jails erupted in protest, but the lessons of that era feel more relevant than ever.
by Heather Ann Thompson via The Nation on March 21, 2019

The Historic Women's Suffrage March on Washington

On March 3, 1913, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade -- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote.
by Michelle Mehrtens via TED on March 4, 2019

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Meaning of Emancipation

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.
by Asad Haider via n+1 on January 18, 2019
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into news microphones.

MLK Warned Us of the Well-Intentioned Liberal

Dr. King did not compromise on racial justice. Neither should we.
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, William J. Barber II via The Nation on January 18, 2019
US soldiers use tear gas to “flush” women and children from hiding in Vietnam, 1966.

Tear Gas and the U.S. Border

How did it come to pass that a weapon banned for military use was deployed against asylum-seekers on the U.S. border?
by Stuart Schrader via Process: A Blog for American History on December 6, 2018
Demonstrators advocate for a nuclear arms freeze.

The Peace Movement Won the INF Treaty. We Must Fight to Preserve It.

In the 1980s, millions of antinuclear activists took to the streets, forcing Western governments to respond to our demands.
by David Cortright via The Nation on November 14, 2018
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