Author: David Tamés
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Large Turnout in Newton Centre for No Kings Protests
More than 2,000 demonstrators gathered in Newton Centre on Saturday, October 18, for the second No Kings protest, joining more than 7 million people across the country to say: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people. The crowd assembled at the Newton Centre Green and the event was kicked off at…
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The Democratic Party’s abandonment of working-class voters and the road ahead
The recent electoral struggles of the Democrats stem not from messaging failures or insufficient outreach, but from a deliberate strategic realignment that has systematically alienated working-class voters. This alienation is the result of conscious choices made by Democrats to prioritize neoliberal economic policies over material security for ordinary Americans, combined with an ideological rigidity that…
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Impact storytelling and nonviolent civil resistance
Impact storytelling in the context of nonviolent civil resistance encompasses practices that repurpose everyday objects as symbols of struggle, uses art to interpret everyday life through the lens of injustice, and reappropriates words that traditionally have negative connotations. The concept is closely related to “narrative resistance,” which creates new collective imaginaries and articulates movements’ visions…