5.03.05 social movement organizations and coalitions

Remembering Tony Henry And a Generation of Leaders

Tony Henry, 1989. PHOTO: American Friends Service Committee
Authors: Keith Harvey

Summary:

We need to remember that the dream was not just Dr. King's, but belongs to the many, many people who gave their time, their energy -- even their lives -- to achieve this powerful vision.

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One Way to Live a Pacifist Life: After 80 Years of Activism - WWII CO Ralph DiGia Dies

Ralph DiGia promoting war tax resistance on tax day, April 17, 2007. photo: Ed Hedemann
Authors: Judith Mahoney Pasternak

Summary:

The US Attorney referred him to the War Resisters League. He never left.

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How to Avoid Destroying Our Movements: On the death of SDS, Nonviolence, and the War

Meaghan Linick (right) of Newschool SDS, Iraq Moratorium, 2007. Photo Thomas Good/Next Left Notes
Authors: Mark Rudd

Summary:

We (the Weather Underground) did the FBI's work for them.

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How Student Radicals Can Be Relevant: Athens, OH SDS Scores Victories -- Sealed with a Pinkie-Swear

Demonstrators at Indonesian Consulate, NY Photo: www.etan.org
Authors: Joshua Kahn Russell

Summary:

Reaching beyond the usual suspects.

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How to Build Alternative Institutions Organizing a Food Not Bombs Chapter

Global Economic Justice Poster
Authors: Food Not Bombs

Summary:

Soon, you'll receive more food than you can distribute to shelters.

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The African Activist Archive Project: Preserving the History of the Solidarity Movement

Bury Apartheid
Authors: Richard Knight

Summary:

The two employees formed the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, which demanded that the company disengage from South Africa and contribute its profits made in South Africa to recognized African liberation movements.

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Military Shipments Obstructed: Olympia Activists Nonviolently Blockade Port

Woman with baby on picket line
Authors: Olympia Port Militarization Resistance

Summary:

The military cargo was blocked. Demonstrators controlled the entrance.

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What Do You Do When a Child is Burning?: A review of the film The Camden 28

Camden 28 poster
Authors: Stephen J. McGeady

Summary:

She could now understand her protesting son, because the trial revealed the lies which killed her other son.

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Tomato Pickers Organize to Improve Conditions: An Open Letter to Burger King and the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange

Demonstrator in the rain
Authors: Clifton Kirkpatrick

Summary:

Boycott Burger King until it supports a penny per pound increase in wages.

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Justice Is Indivisible: Non-Discrimination Must Include Gender Identity

Yogyakarta Principles sign
Authors: Donna Rose

Summary:

Why I resigned from the Board of an organization I love.

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