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Saving Our Own Lives: Grassroots Responses to COVID-19 Around the Globe

To what extent have these organizations proven better equipped to deal with the pandemic response, and what are the challenges that these associations face when organizing in the age of COVID-19? In addition, how can they seize this moment to turn their organizing into power and influence in political and economic life?

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Nonviolent Action Against Democratic Erosion: The United States in Comparative Perspective
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Occasional Paper

Nonviolent Action Against Democratic Erosion: The United States in Comparative Perspective

In this report, Matthew Cebul, Lead Research Fellow for the Nonviolent Action Lab, examines the effectiveness of nonviolent action movements in supporting democratic resilience globally. Identifying challenges faced by nonviolent pro-democracy movements, Cebul offers key takeaways for combating accelerating democratic erosion in the US and abroad.

The left knows how to have huge protests. The right knows how to win elections.
A 'No Kings' protest sign.

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The left knows how to have huge protests. The right knows how to win elections.

In this op-ed, Liz McKenna examines the second ‘No Kings’ protest on October 18 and offers strategies for translating successful protest movements into influential policy change. She emphasizes the importance of sustained organizational efforts alongside protest activity to engage actors across partisan lines, building a broad coalition and a durable base for the movement.

Just How Powerful Are Protests?
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Just How Powerful Are Protests?

Archon Fung and Stephen Richer are joined by University of Pittsburgh’s Lara Putnam to discuss the recent No Kings protest movement.