By defacing a museum exhibit, Māori activists successfully disrupted and fractured hegemonic understandings of the history of colonialism.
Resistance Studies is a collaborative effort between academics and activists, or “professors of the street,” that promotes the analysis of and support for nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience around the world. This includes the Resistance Studies Initiative at UMass Amherst, scholars in the Resistance Studies Network and the interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed Journal of Resistance Studies. This initiative is managed and edited by Stellan Vinthagen, Craig Brown, Ben Case and Priyanka Borpujari.
Waging Nonviolence partners with other organizations and publishes their work.
Reflections from a healing ceremony for Native Americans and allies that aims to visit all corners of North America over a period of 21 years.
Elik Elhanan on his decades of anti-occupation activism and what the current protests mean for Israel’s future.
At a time when labor strikes are escalating across a wide variety of industries, these Los Angeles strippers’ techniques could prove fruitful to new organizing efforts.
Recent settler attacks on Palestinian villages have led residents to ponder what has changed since the 1948 Nakba.