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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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Give Students a Chance To Be on the Right Side of History
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Give Students a Chance To Be on the Right Side of History

Archon Fung explores the history of student activism at Harvard and argues that such movements often bring a rare sense of “moral clarity” to universities nationwide — a crucial benefit of free speech and peaceful protest.

From Crisis to Action: Turning the Tide on Democratic Erosion Through Organizing
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From Crisis to Action: Turning the Tide on Democratic Erosion Through Organizing

In response to the recent anti-democratic patterns in the United States, the Ash Center hosted a panel of Harvard scholars to discuss how civil society can resist democratic backsliding through social mobilization and organizing.