Get Inspired This Holiday Season! Since 2008 I have written four books on winning social change. What led me to write four books in one decade? I owe a tremendous debt to the University of California Press for supporting my
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New Books Highlight Green Transit Strategies From New York City’s 14th Street to San Francisco’s Market Street, cities are finally stopping cars from dominating the urban landscape. But there is much work left to be done.  This makes two new
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Fifty years ago this fall, a campus upsurge turned opposition to the Vietnam War into a genuine mass movement. On October 15, 1969, several million students, along with community-based activists, participated in anti-war events under the banner of the “Vietnam
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Four years ago, Barcelona voters made international news when they chose Ada Colau, a young feminist and housing rights activist, to be mayor of Spain’s second largest city. Colau was backed by Barcelona En Comu, a social movement coalition opposed
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Six Unusual Veterans Ponder Active Duty and Its Aftermath  It happens all the time in small towns and big cities across the country. A young person from a poor or working-class family can’t find a good job or afford to
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Peter’s Cole’s Dockworker Power (Illinois; $35) looks at the history of “dockers” in Durban, South Africa, which sits on the Indian Ocean, and dockworkers San Francisco, which sits in a place we all know very well. The comparisons and the
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The Racist, Reactionary World of Bigtime Sports I’ve been a sports fan since the early 1960’s. And it’s harder than ever to justify loyalty to a sports world whose approach toward African-American athletes remains reactionary and often racist. If you
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Mention the two words “Black Panther” to anyone under the age of 40, and they’re likely to think, right off the bat, of the 2018 action, adventure film Black Panther. They’re not likely to think of the Black Panthers of
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