Part three of the Progressive Tradition Series examines the influence of social movements for equality and economic justice on the development of progressivism.

NGOs hoping to support social movements must grapple with high rates of exhaustion, personal trauma, and burnout in social movements. They can learn approaches to activism from the Black Lives Matter ...

Mounting a social-movement campaign that can achieve real change requires more planning and strategy than just lining up lots of people to support your cause. Tangible, positive effects that benefit a ...

Inclusionary and exclusionary social movements inevitably clash. Every movement, no matter how successful, will at some point meet resistance and experience at least partial reversal.

Understanding the roles of individuals and different organizations in a movement is a key to building a successful social movement. One organization or network of individuals cannot do everything.

Can theories of movement cycles equip activists to persevere over the long haul? Mark Engler and Paul Engler try to find out. Those who get involved in social movements share a common experience: ...

Foundations and other donors often want to support large-scale protests that shift public opinion around social issues. Here’s how they can back up movements during important moments in their ...

This paper explores the relationship between social movements, social justice and social work. It examines the role of social movements in promoting social justice and considers the influences of such ...

Cali Anne Cleaves, a University of Dayton law student, shares insights from global social activist and academic Zeynep Tufekci’s Social Practice of Human Rights 2019 keynote address on technology’s ...

Here’s another way of saying that: the vanguard of the social movement has created something of a civic moment. Social movements are very good at turning people out into the streets to say the current ...

Peter M. Rosset ¹², Maria Elena Martínez-Torres ³, Rural Social Movements and Agroecology, Ecology and Society, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sep 2012) ...

We at the hashtags that spawned the decade's biggest social movements. Gene McVay, Marcus Hunter and Tarana Burke discuss their roles.