Selected On-Line Social Movement Articles
- Alliances Across the Border: the US Labor Movement in the Era of Globalization by Bruce Nissen.
- Black Arts Movement by Kalamu ya Salaam. Piece from the Oxford Companion to American Literature on the key cultural force of the Black Power movement of the 1960s and early 70s.
- The Origins and History of the Chicano Movement by Roberto Rodriguez.
- An Introduction to Anarchism by Liz A. Highleyman.
- Drawing the Line at Place: Environmental Justice Project by Mat Schwarzman. Article on an art project linking toxic waste and the old plantation system in Louisiana.
- This Is about People Dying: The Tactics of Early ACT UP and the Lesbian Avengers in New York City based upon interviews with Maxine Wolfe by Laraine Sommella.
- A Brief History of the Black Panther Party by Sundiata Acoli.
- Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freedman. Classic early feminist article.
- Narratives of Possibility: Social Movements, Collective Stories, and the Dilemmas of Practice by J. Kling. An innovative article about using social movement narratives as an organizing tool.
- Grassroots Environmentalism and Strategies for Social Change by Barbara Epstein. A useful article on new, more class-based ways to think about environmental activism.
- Empowerment Practice and Social Change: The Place for New Social Movement Theory by James Herrick.