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John Paul Lederach: Why movements need to learn to fly like bees and thread like spiders

For insights into building a broad-based pro-democracy movement take inspiration from nature.

July 18, 2025 · 2 Comments

Carlos Saavedra: Movements and Leaders Have Seasons — It’s Important To Know Which One You’re In

Learning to attune to the cycles of our own leadership can help us know when to do the right thing at the right time.

February 7, 2022 · Leave a comment

Abby Zimet: The Word Is Love

It was 39 years ago Sunday that John Lennon was murdered by a deranged fan in front of his apartment.

December 10, 2019 · Leave a comment

Allegra Harpootlian: Ending the Forever Wars?

What if there’s an antiwar movement growing right under our noses and we just haven’t noticed because it doesn’t look like any antiwar movement we’ve even imagined?

June 27, 2019 · Leave a comment

Video: Noam Chomsky and Martin Luther King on building a resistance movement

. . As widespread oppression and violence rise up, people of good conscience wonder what we can do to help move the country in the right direction. It is natural … Continue reading

August 20, 2017 · Leave a comment

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