New Orleans Grabbing the mantle of a movement often seems like a first impulse for many protests and campaigns but reaching for it is not the same as being a movement. At the same time there are signs that can’t be missed when a real movement is stirring. I found delightful evidence in what many …
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Parsing Demonstrations to Movements to Organizations
Santa Cruz Let’s give a “A” for effort on this paper, regardless of quibbles about content. At least Beverly Gage, a Yale history professor, writing for the New York Times Magazine in a piece entitled “Cause and Effort” gave some props to social change and tried to introduce some of the problems and potential of …
Answering the Hard Questions about Movements and Organizations
New Orleans In Lafayette, Louisiana after the screening of the documentary, “The Organizer,” a question was phrased differently than I heard in New Orleans or Woodstock, New York, when I fielded questions after people watched the movie, but despite the sentence construction, the sentiment was much the same. A woman asked, given the excitement and …