Social Movements

Building a Social Movement to Improve Long-Term Care in California

Dr. Bruce A. Chernof, MD | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Social Movements, Aging, California, Independence, Dignity, Choice, Health, Long Term Care, SCAN Foundation, American Society on Aging Conference, Fifty News
Dr. Bruce A. Chernof, MD

Messaging about growing older and creating a world that honors an aging America needs to be succinct and clear, not laden with insider language oriented to policy wonks.

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Birthing Justice: The Link to Humanity -- Gift Economies

Beverly Bell | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Mali, Women's Rights, Women, Solidarity Economy, Care Economy, Social Movements, Gender, Gift Economy, African Women, Africa, West Africa, World News
Beverly Bell

West African gifting is based on the interrelated values that all humanity is linked and that one's well-being is only as strong as that of one's neighbor. Profit and exchange are trumped by a commitment to care for community.

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Fed Up With Housing Policy

Paul Boden | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Section 8, Congress, Social Justice, Poverty, Public Housing, Budget Cuts, Budget, President Obama, Progressives, Western Regional Advocacy Project, Housing Crisis, Affordable Housing, Foreclosure Crisis, Human Rights, Homelessness, Federal Budget Deficit, Community Organizing, Social Movements, Housing and Urban Development, Section 8 Housing Vouchers, Politics News
Paul Boden

We can't put our hope in politicians and organizations that attempt to smooth out the edges of terrible legislation while people lose their homes and programs are gutted. In communities across the country, groups are joining hands to build a movement for the human right to housing.

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Birthing Justice: Without Firing an Arm, We Created a Revolution

Beverly Bell | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Land Reform, Landless Workers' Movement, Indigenous Rights, Land Grabs, Resource Rights, Women's Rights, Social Movements, Brazil, Gender, Mst, Women's Right Brazil, Housing Rights, Global Motherhood, Impact News
Beverly Bell

Today, land access remains largely unfair and inequitable. Never has such a high percentage of the world's population been displaced from their indigenous or ancestral lands, left without land, a secure home, or the ability to feed themselves.

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A Success Worse Than Failure? Lessons From Activist Campaigns in South Africa and Sudan

Stephanie Rudat | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Divestment, Nonprofits, Joseph Kony, Darfur, Activism, Genocide, Activists, Kony 2012, Social Movements, Impact News
Stephanie Rudat

For activist movements seeking positive change, there is only one thing worse than obscurity: the infliction of unintended negative consequences on those you are trying to help.

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Not Feeling Yourself Today?

Phillip Haid | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Public Engagement, Social Movements, Mental Health, Advocacy, Impact News
Phillip Haid

Ever had a day when you didn't feel yourself? I suspect if you are like the vast majority of North Americans (say 99 percent) the answer is yes. So ...

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BIRTHING JUSTICE: Women in Peace-Building -- Peace Amidst War for Resource Control

Beverly Bell | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Energy, Indigenous Rights, Resource Rights, Africa, Environment, Oil, Women's Rights, Social Movements, Nigeria, Peace, Gender, World News
Beverly Bell

There is a need to integrate gender into all levels of power to enable women to participate and become full beneficiaries of the oil revenue. That's why we're advocating for women to be part of government and part of whatever bodies are set up to address the issues of the Niger Delta.

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Kony 2012: Rethinking Global Problem Solving

Don Tapscott | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Online Campaigning, Social Movements, Kony 2012, Internet Ngos, Kony 2012 Controversy, Invisible Children Kony 2012, Online Social Movements, Business News
Don Tapscott

These non-state based models seem to hold great promise but how do we ensure their legitimacy, accountability and efficacy as vehicles for social justice and global cooperation?

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What Are Conservatives Trying to Conserve?

Ira Glasser | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Election 2012 Demographics, 2012 Election, Gop, Jonathan Chait Gop, Gop Election 2012, Election 2012, Jonathan Chait, Obama Election 2012, Social Change, Social Movements, Social Trends, Demographic Shifts 2012, Demographic Shifts, Gop-Party-2012, Politics News
Ira Glasser

Chait's emphasis on demographic shifts is powerful and mainly on target, but there is a broader historical context to his analysis that complements, extends and better explains the hysteria dominating the current rhetoric of the Republican party.

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Conducting Business in Revolutionary Times

Scott Goodson | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Social Movements, Movement Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Grassroots Political Movements, Social Uprisings, Kony 2012, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Social Global Movements, Business News
Scott Goodson

I believe many who have watched what is transpiring around the world can't help wondering: How can I be a part of something like that? Or, could I possibly help start something like that, based on an idea that matters deeply to me?

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Please Reconsider the Term "Arab Spring"

Maytha Alhassen | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Revolutions, Social Movements, Names, Arab Spring, Arab Revolutions, Dignity, World News
Maytha Alhassen

The irony of the Western invention of the "Arab Spring" is that regardless of citizenry remonstrations for "self-determination," we still continue to see the Arab region in our eyes and not through theirs.

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Pinker: Pollyanna of Peace?

John Feffer | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Violence, Social Movements, Steven Pinker, Progressives, War, Peace, The Better Angels of Our Nature, World News
John Feffer

In his new book, the Harvard psychologist urges us to ignore what we read, what we see, and what our common sense is telling us. The world is not getting more violent. In fact, the world has become demonstrably less violent.

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Participatory Action Research and Organizing for Justice

Donna Nevel | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Participatory Action Research, Occupy Movements, Angela Davis, Organizing for Justice, Social Movements, Global Protest Movements, Occupy Protests, Neo Liberalism, Books News
Donna Nevel

Participatory Action Research is very much in line with the politics of the Occupy movements. The principles of PAR have been critical to social movements for self-determination throughout the world.

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Real-World Change Can Come From Within

Parker J. Palmer | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Politics, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr, Spirituality and Politics, Vaclav Havel, Social Movements, Democracy, Rosa Parks, Velvet Revolution, Religion and Politics, Occupy Faith, Religion News
Parker J. Palmer

The notion that social change can be sparked by an inner revolution is not only realistic. It also gives us a gift that conventional "realism" withholds -- a chance to do something that might make a difference.

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Notice of Drafting: The World Wants You!

Erik Rasmussen | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Energy, Environment, Climate Change, Rising Sea Level, Green Energy, Maxine Water Shortage, Arab Spring, Green, Social Movements, Green News
Erik Rasmussen

If there were ever a right time and a good reason for a global youth movement -- that time would be now.

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Movements Unite In Mali, Confronting Powerful Interests

Salena Tramel | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Mali, Via Campesina, Social Movements, Rural Development, Land Grab, World News, World News
Salena Tramel

Last week, peasants from across Africa and around the world worked together to envision communities where land is more than a commodity.

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OWS Has Lessons to Learn From Past Movements

Michael Zweig | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Social Movements, Occupy Wall Street Protest, #Occupywallstreet, Occupy Wall Street, New York News
Michael Zweig

Occupy Wall Street is reminiscent of the mid-20th century civil rights, women's lib, and peace movements, as well as the great labor battles of the '30s and '40s that brought unions and shared prosperity broadly to the working class.

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Creating Movements and Cause Marketing Dreams Can Come True

Mark Horvath | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Movements, Homelessness, Mark Horvath, Marty Cooke, Ketchum, Cause Movements, invisiblepeople.tv, Homeless, Marketing, Social Movements, Cause Marketing, Invisible People, Political Movements, Kristen Engberg, Video, Impact News
Mark Horvath

When I started InvisiblePeople.tv I had a dream that to change the story of homelessness and get people into housing we would need to partner with new people and reach new stakeholders.

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Occupy Nursing Homes: A Cause to Die For

Byron Kennard | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Green, Occupy Wall Street, Greatest Generation, Satire, Generation X, Climate Change, Social Movements, Comedy, Global Warming, Baby Boomers, Environmentalists, Preservation of Wilderness, Seniors, Environment, Boomers, Comedy News
Byron Kennard

My proposal calls for expanded wilderness protection in order to accommodate large numbers of nearly-dearly departed boomers. Think of this as the ecological dividend of your sacrifice.

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Occupy Wall St.-Capitalism Meets Distributive Justice

Doug Noll | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Hedge Fund Operators, Financial Reform, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Social Movements, Occupy Wall Street, Obama, Social Protests, Republicans, Capitalism, Big Banks, Democrats, Politics News
Doug Noll

Wise political leaders who value their positions should be taking note and not ignoring the demands of distributive justice.

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Haitian Movements Branch Out

Salena Tramel | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: National Congress of the Papaye Peasant Movement, Food Sovereignty, Tet Kole, Salena Tramel, Local Food, Haiti, Sustainable Agriculture, Peasant Movement of Papaye, Social Movements, Grassroots International, Rural, World News, Kros, World News
Salena Tramel

From a small village in the central plateau to forgotten towns in the north and south, grassroots organizers are demonstrating that their solutions are the way towards a new Haiti.

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Social Renaissance

Paul Stoller | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: American Soceity, Politics, Social Media, Social Convention, Social Change, Occupy Wall Street, Social Movements, Social Inequality, Media, Media News
Paul Stoller

Facing an economic, social and political future of limited possibility, the presence of the Occupy Wall Street community is compelling us to wake up to our bleak reality and take action to secure the future.

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Bonnie Kavoussi

Occupy Wall Street: The Beginning Of A Movement?

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Video, Grassroots Activism, Political Movement, Grassroots, Occupy Wall Street, Social Movement, Social Movements, Social Unrest, Political Movements, Business News

"Occupy Wall Street" may be the beginning of a major social movement, but its ultimate impact will depend on the group's ability to produce a focused ...

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Moving Planet: Just Your Usual (Libyan) Environmentalists

Jamie Henn | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Social Movements, Social Change, Bill Mckibben, Egypt, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Slidepollajax, Green News
Jamie Henn

Just your usual environmentalists are getting ready for "Moving Planet," this Saturday's global day of action to "move the planet beyond fossil fuels."

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Our National Dark Night Of The Soul

Lisa Sharon Harper | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Women's Suffrage, Abolition, Budget Debate, Dark Night of the Soul, Social Movements, Budget, St. John of the Cross, Civil Rights, Religion and Politics, Economic Injustice, Test of Faith, Religion News
Lisa Sharon Harper

We are a nation woven together by eclectic threads of common faith in the truth that all people are created equal. Again and again, our darkest hours have come when elements within our own national body have tested this faith.

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