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Article
Social Movement Leadership as an Alternative to Bureaucracy?
This Contexts article discusses a novel approach of using decision-making usually found in social movements and leadership dynamics as a template for improving the running of national level government. The author provides examples of recent successful grassroots social movements as contexts for testing out this possibility.
Video
Violence Against Women Social Movement
CNN interview with renowned activist and Feminist writer, Eve Ensler, about “One Billion Rising,” an emerging social international movement to combat violence and atrocities committed against women. She also discusses the history of violence against women across global settings, and the efforts that the new campaigns sponsor to support women leaders.
Social Change and Non-Violence
TED talk addressing the use of peaceful protest to fight extreme force without using force in return, providing historically exemplary leaders of this form of social movement.
US$15 Minimum Wage in United States
Prominent economist and policy leader contextualizes the social movement of the Fight for US$15. He dispels common arguments against raising the minimum wage and presents evidence of the economic and social benefits of giving full-time employees in the United States, a working wage.
Audio
Fast Food Workers Strike for Living Wage
NPR Morning Edition story about the Fight for US$15 by fast food workers and presents arguments from protestors for a living wage, as well as corporate supporters explication that higher wages would result in job losses, more selective hiring practices, and increased automation in food production to offset more expensive workers.
NPR news story reflection on the last 50 years of civil protests and riots spurred by racial discrimination and brutality experienced in African American communities, with accompanying articles and documentary photographs.
NPR news story reflection on the last 50 years of civil protests and riots spurred by racial discrimination and brutality experienced in African American communities, with accompanying articles and documentary photographs.