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From Hermitage to Heritage: Del Martin's Declaration of Lesbian Pride, 1956

Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Boston Chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, Nov 20, 1994. Photo: © Ellen Shub
Authors: Del Martin

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The solidarity of a cooperative front can replace a tight fist of security.

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How Effective is Personal Storytelling?: Strategic Insights from Social Movement Theory

Fannie Lou Hamer, photo: Warren K. Leffler, US News & world report, now in the Library of Congress
Authors: Betsy Leondar-Wright

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By Betsy Leondar-Wright reviewing Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life and It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics.

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Repression at the Republican Convention: The Criminalization of Dissent

Anti-war demonstration in St. Paul, MN, September 4, 2008. photo: Zoe Prinds-Flash
Authors: Tom Good

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The Republican Party Host Committee bribed St. Paul to violate protesters' rights. The city, and Homeland Security, complied.

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Reporter Arrested at Democratic Convention: His Crime? Reporting on How Money Fuels Politics

Gerry Katz from Taos helps form the letter "T" in "Make Out Not War" Photo Josie Lenwell
Authors: Sam Diener

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Shoved off the sidewalk; threatened with arrest for blocking traffic.

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Rethinking Leadership: Ella Baker as Role-Model

Freedom Cannot Resist cover
Authors: Gabriel Sayegh Kim Fyke

Summary:

Good leadership creates opportunities for others to expand their potential to become leaders themselves.

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The Tyranny of Tyranny

Homeless women at St. Patrick's shelter in Somerville MA protest against Catholic Charities cancelling onsite HIV/AIDS education programs and access to condoms, as well as the firing of the program director, Gayle Basten, November 16, 1991. Photo: © Ellen
Authors: Cathy Levine

Summary:

Small groups aren't the problem. They're the solution.

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The Tyranny of Structurelessness

Code Pink activists spell out "Make Out Not War" at the Democratic National Convention. Aerial photo: © John Quigley
Authors: Jo Freeman

Summary:

Structurelessness is a way of masking power, usually most strongly advocated by the most powerful.

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Preventing a Purge of Voting Rights in 2008

Authors: Sam Diener

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Trying to use the Help America Vote Act to keep Americans from Voting.

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March on Ballot Boxes to Eradicate Poverty: King on Combining Direct Action & Suffrage

Authors: Jr. Martin Luther King

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Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

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Let the Politicians Come to Us: Garrison on Conscientiously Refusing to Vote

William Lloyd Garrison, Photo: National Archives
Authors: William Lloyd Garrison

Summary:

It is not the duty of every abolitionist to be a voter. It is the duty of every voter to be an abolitionist.

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