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• The Energy Crisis: A Conversation with Jonathan Schell About Invigorating the Climate Movement

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 537
  Last June was the 27th anniversary of one of the largest protests in history, when upwards of one million people gathered on the Great Lawn in New York’s Central Park to rally against nuclear weapons while the U.N. held a Special Session on Disarmament. Two days later 1,600 demonstrators were involved in acts of ...
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• I Wrote This In October 2008. . . .

  
  DISSENTING JUSTICE — Authority: 461
  On October 21, 2008, when Dissenting Justice was still getting started as a blog, I wrote the following essay reprinted below. I am republishing it because it seems highly relevant today. FYI: The article received many hits at the time and remains very popular among readers. ...
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• the contentiousness of markets

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 543
  A graduate student here at Northwestern, Nicholas Pearce, and I have written an essay about the influence of social movements on markets for next year’s Annual Review of Sociology . A number of you offered very useful feedback on the paper. Thank you! Now that it’s finally finished, I thought I’d post a link ...
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• 2009 in Pictures – Displacement, Environment, Protests

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  Great 3-parter from the Boston Globe , lots of protest movements, refugees and displaced peoples, and environmental catastrophes… kinda says it all. Pick your “favorite” as in most striking and representative.  Mine? (click on the image for big version) Shelling of a UN schools in Gaza by the Israeli army: ...
  2 days ago

• Women and Social Movements: The Online Discussion

  
  Word on the Street — Authority: 405
  Fans of Women and Social Movements in the United States will be excited to learn of the new online forum for discussions of teaching and research in U.S. womens history. Women and Social Movements: The Online Discussion is directed and managed by a group of historians, including Laura Westhoff of the ...
  4 days ago

• Call for Writers: Hip-hop, resistance, and feminism

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 158
  Gender Across Borders  is planning a series about hip-hop, resistance, and feminism for mid-January. We are seeking articles that tie together an analysis of race and gender with a consideration of the impact of music on social movements. Those with knowledge of music and/or a familiarity with resistance movements ...
  5 days ago

• forget the bowling league, join a choir

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 543
  So you’re looking to get some good civic experience and become a major player in community politics? Although conventional wisdom would suggest that you join a bowling league or a political activist group , a new study by Matthew Baggetta in Social Forces tells us that the ideal organization for gaining ...
  1 week ago

• coalitions and coordination in tea party organizing

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 543
  Michael Tomasky’s provocative article a little while back in the NYRB, which discussed the Tea Parties and new right-wing protest movements, had me thinking about what initial insights social movement theory can offer to understanding this recent wave of activism. There are clearly certain aspects of this — such ...
  1 week ago

• Protesters Challenge Skeptics: The Earth is Round and Climate Change is Real

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 505
  by smteixeirapoit The United Nations Climate Change Conference is taking place in Copenhagen from December 7 th to 18 th . Prior to the start of the conference, members of an action group, Stop Climate Chaos, organized demonstrations encouraging world leaders to advance a world climate change agreement. Around the ...
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• A Time to Conspire: The Copenhagen Moment

  
  banned librarian — Authority: 99
  The new issue of Left Turn magazine is out with an important article about this week’s convergence in Copenhagen by my colleague Gopal Dayaneni. Here’s a preview. Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project “Imagine waking up on December 1, 1999, and learning about the World Trade Organization for the ...
  1 week ago

• advice to activists: use the primaries

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 543
  Recently, a student asked me what I would recommend to social movement activists. Among movement tactics, I’ve decided that primary challenges are severely underrated by most activists and that most movements should focus more on primaries. If you go to many movement events, you have lots of talk about grassroots ...
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• Women : The Secret Weapon of the Marijuana Reform Movement

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 558
  Art from Anne of Carversville.The secret to legal marijuana?It may just be womenBy Daniela Perdomo / December 6, 2009In September, ladymag Marieclaire ruffled some feathers when it published a piece about women who smoke weed. But its most interesting effect was not the "marijuana moms" chatter it unleashed, and ...
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• Dangerous Dogs Revisited

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 505
  by paulabowles Following the recent sad news of the death of 4 year old John Paul Massey, after he had been attacked by his uncle’s American bull mastiff, media attention has refocused on the ownership of ‘dangerous’ dogs. As part of the BBC ‘Pledge Watch’ series of articles, Justin Parkinson has taken ...
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• Queer Heterosexuality

  
  BELOW THE BELT — Authority: 121
  My previous post provided a review of Louis-Georges Tin ’s book, L’invention de la Culture Hétérosexuelle . The book is an attempt to historicize heterosexual dominance by exposing the fact that the man-woman couple was valued very differently throughout French history. During feudal times, heterosexuality ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fear’s Role in Climate Change Issues

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 528
  Fear. It is a simple emotion. It is a feeling. But it can also create something complicated — in what it makes us think and do. Fear drives many decisions in the world, and may often cause us to make the wrong decision. The important thing is realizing the difference between thoughtful awareness of negative ...
  2 weeks ago

• Telling the Truth: Immigrants and their communities

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 505
  by ChristinaBlunt Today, December 2, Maryland pastor Lennox Abrigo will be at the White House to discuss immigration reform. According to the New York Times, Abrigo and other pastors across the state have witnessed increases in the number of immigrants in their congregations as well as increases in the problems ...
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• What to do……….

  
  Black Looks — Authority: 528
  “”…what happens from now on depends very much on what people like you are going to do. If you become energized, engaged, involved, active, organized, protesting and so on – OK, there can be more historical changes. If you choose to resign to apathy and obedience, then you get a reconstruction of what happens ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cyborg Systems: Sociology’s Proper Unit of Analysis

  
  Sociology Lens — Authority: 505
  by pj.rey The increasing centrality of the Internet in our daily lives has precipitated a spate of theorizing about how we – as humans and as a society – are changing (or not) due to the constant technological mediation of our most basic interactions and activities.  Let’s face it: This sort of theorizing is ...
  2 weeks ago

• need a few people to help me survey a protest in san francisco

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 543
  It was recently announced that there will be an antiwar protest in San Francisco. You might know that I am currently conducting a study of the antiwar movement. Normally, I might try to get to SF to survey people, but I’m already committed for a trip next week. So I am looking for one or two trustworthy souls who ...
  3 weeks ago

• John Ross : A Mexican Revolution Every 100 Years?

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 558
  "Revolución." Woodcut by José Guadalupe Posada / Biografías y Vidas.1810! 1910! 2010?A Mexican Revolution timelineBy John Ross / The Rag Blog / November 26, 2009MEXICO CITY -- Fact: Every 100 years on the tenth year of the century, Mexico explodes in extravagant social upheaval. In 1810, this distant neighbor ...
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