civil disobedience
Disobedience award (applications close 31 July)
The Disobedience Award—a $250,000, no-strings-attached prize—recognises individuals and groups who engage in responsible, ethical disobedience aimed at challenging norms, rules, or laws that sustain society’s injustices. This award honors work that is focused on...
‘That’s just the life of a warrior’: How disability activists are playing the long game under Trump
Pacific Standard spoke to Anita Cameron. Among disability rights activists, Cameron is legendary. She’s been performing acts of civil disobedience for almost four decades, with over 130 arrests. She also pushes the disability community to confront issues...
MIT offer $250,000 for civil disobedience for the benefit of society
MIT are now accepting nominations for the first-ever MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award, which carries a $250,000 cash prize, no strings attached. This award will go to a person or group engaged in what we believe is an extraordinary example of disobedience for the...
You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South (documentary)
Lucy Massie Phenix’s You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South is about individuals who have dared to change the world for the better and Tennessee s world-renowned Highlander Folk School (now Highlander Research and Education Center), the place that for...
Civil resistance online library
The International Centre for Nonviolent Conflict aims to build the most accessible online library on civil resistance, with resources for activists, scholars, members of INGOs, journalists and the policy community. Whenever possible, we include links to download or...
Making or Breaking Nonviolent Discipline in Civil Resistance Movements
How can we understand when nonviolent movements will stay nonviolent? When are they likely to break down into violence? In this monograph, Jonathan Pinckney analyzes both what promotes and undermines nonviolent discipline in civil resistance movements. Combining...
A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World
But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives. As in the environmental world, many in the black community are seeing limits to traditional advocacy…...
Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua
Jason Macleod is a member of the Change Agency team: a dedicated activist educator, mentor and strategist. Having dropped out of university in 1991, Jason hitched to northern Queensland then made his way to Papua New Guinea. Hiking and paddling the Sepik, he made his...
Activist State (Documentary: 1968 San Francisco Student Strike)
The 1968 student-led strike in San Francisco was the longest campus strike in United States history. The five-month event defined the University’s core values of equity and social justice, laid the groundwork for establishment of the College of Ethnic Studies, and...
‘Beautiful Trouble: A toolbox for revolution’
‘Beautiful Trouble’ lays out the core tactics, principles and theoretical concepts that drive creative activism, providing analytical tools for changemakers to learn from their own successes and failures.