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08
Mar

A Global Movement for Gender Equality

Women around the globe are taking to the streets today, International Women’s Day (IWD), to protest on a range of issues from pay gaps, to gender-based violence, to forced marriages, and to rally …

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19
Jan

The Women’s Marches Have Changed Everything

Two years after more than 4 million women around the world took to the streets in protest of Donald Trump’s inauguration, demonstrators are once again coming together for the third-annual Women’s March. But what do …

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18
Nov

Essential Reads for Activists

For some, our current political and social moment has inspired action and activism to ensure equality and social justice for all.  Below are titles that will inspire you to advocate for change …

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29
Oct

10 Facts About U.S. Protests in History

Political protests have a deep past in U.S. history, with varied degrees of success in accomplishing what they set out to do. Gleaned from L.A. Kauffman’s eye-opening new book, How to Read a …

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05
Oct

Does Marching Matter?

“Protests works—just not, perhaps the way you think,” writes L.A. Kauffman in her new book How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance. A longtime organizer and movement journalist, …

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07
Aug

At APSA, Evaluating a Democracy in Crisis

During this year’s annual American Political Science Association conference in Boston from August 30 – September 2, conference attendees will consider Democracy and Its Discontents—how current dilemmas of democracy provoke scholars to work …

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