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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right. Why is that?

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Strengthening Democracy by Practicing It

NonProfit Quarterly

Book cover by Oxford University Press In his new book People, Power, Change, author-activist Marshall Ganz writes about the art and science of organizing and social change. Effective public voice arising from commitment to common purpose—a political process—has become rare indeed. Public voice grows quite faint.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

6 Yet social transformation on this scale has not historically happened without concerted struggle by ordinary people demanding what they need to survive. The event was convened by Contra el diluvio, an organization dedicated to revealing the consequences of climate change to the public.

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Solidarity Challenges the Status Quo: A Conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. It arises in moments of social tumult, like the one in which we’re living. These concepts seem as if they have contradictory meanings, but they fit together because social cohesion requires social change.

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How to Advance a Just Energy Transition in Oil-Dominated New Brunswick

NonProfit Quarterly

Will the province adapt by diversifying its energy sector and building a green economy? Public pressure in Quebec and Prince Edward Island has led to legislated bans on future extraction projects. This broader analysis of energy impact is sometimes referred to as “ life cycle assessment ”).

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