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Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories AND Where They Originate

An expert explains the psychology of conspiratorial thinking

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Added by Cromag on May 2, 2013 at 1:00pm — No Comments

The Diffusion of Protests

Excerpts from Koopmans, Ruud (2004) ‘Protest in time and space: the evolution of waves of contention’, in David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 19–46.

A simple repetition of past patterns of protest by dissidents is [...] unlikely to lead to such an exposure of political opportunities. Regimes have established ways of dealing with known types of protest and…

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Added by Cromag on May 1, 2013 at 1:16pm — No Comments

The Outsider's Guide to Supporting Nonviolent Resistance to Dictatorship

A few months ago, a group of experts on nonviolence from around the world gathered in New York to consider how those outside a country subject to dictatorship or repression might help those within it fighting for democracy.

The result was this document, a list of nonviolent techniques that can and have been used against repressive…

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Added by Cromag on November 13, 2012 at 4:51pm — No Comments

Radicals & the 99%: Righteous Few or Moral Majority?



The Occupy Wall Street movement claims to be a movement of “the 99%”, challenging the extreme consolidation of wealth and political power by the top one percent. Our opponents, however, claim that the 99% movement is just a bunch of fringe radicals who are out of touch with mainstream America.

They’re not 100% wrong about us being radicals. Young radicals…

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Added by Cromag on November 7, 2011 at 9:48pm — No Comments

A Master Class in Occupation





By Chris Hedges

NEW YORK CITY—Jon Friesen, 27, tall and lanky with a long, dirty-blond ponytail, a purple scarf and an old green fleece, is sitting on concrete at the edge of Zuccotti…

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Added by Cromag on November 4, 2011 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Gandhi meets Monty Python: The comedic turn in nonviolent tactics

On October 3rd, protesters at Occupy Wall Street failed to march. Instead they clumsily lurched. With white painted faces, glazed looks and dollar bills hanging out of some mouths, protesters chanted “I smell money, I smell money…” It was Corporate Zombie Day. Scenes like this and the sight of Guy Fawkes masks, clown suits, drumming circles and surrealistic posters all over the country have left many commentators scratching their heads. Is th…

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Added by Cromag on October 28, 2011 at 10:04pm — No Comments

How to Build a Movement

Since the summer of 2003 I’ve crisscrossed the country speaking at colleges and theaters and bookstores, first with The Weather Underground documentary and, starting in March of this year, with my book Underground:  My Life with SDS and the Weathermen (William Morrow, 2009).  In discussions with young people, they often tell me, “Nothing anyone does can ever make…

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Added by Cromag on March 19, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

Rights Fight: Local Democracy vs. Factory Farms in Pennsylvania

This is a great article about the knowledge, skill and experience required to go up against entrenched powerful interests. 

 

They hang the man and flog the woman,

Who steals the goose from off the common,

Yet let the greater villain loose,

That steals the common from the goose.

  

-- Seventeenth-century English protest rhyme…

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Added by Cromag on March 12, 2011 at 7:46pm — 1 Comment

How Activists Organize (updated)

Watching the videos below, and exploring the additional materials and links, is a primer for understanding how seemingly powerless activists organize and affect widespread change.  One caveat is understanding elitism and the irony of democracy;  that changing status quo from one ruling class to another does not necessarily improve all conditions or eliminate oppression and corruption […

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Added by Cromag on February 21, 2011 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Revolution U

Early in 2008, workers at a government-owned textile factory in the Egyptian mill town of El-Mahalla el-Kubra announced that they were going on strike on the first Sunday in April to protest high food prices and low wages. They caught the attention of a group of tech-savvy young people an hour's drive to the south in the capital city of Cairo, who started a Facebook group to…

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Added by Cromag on February 20, 2011 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

Activism vs. organizing ○ reflections on Gramsci pt.2

by Jonathan Smucker on February 3, 2011

In his essay Voluntarism and Social Masses, Antonio Gramsci…

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Added by Cromag on February 13, 2011 at 7:00pm — No Comments

About Us - with Glossary

"Somehow we can talk about these subjects here in polite company."

Welcome all, and thanks for visiting ActMo! This is the NEW location for our popular About Us page since NING changed their TOS in 2010.



The Activist Motivator is a Citizen Journalist, Open Forum, Social Network for promoting Awareness, Debate and Organizing Action on important social issues. Issues like transparency, corporate…

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Added by Cromag on August 1, 2010 at 4:00pm — No Comments

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