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"When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 women's marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising, a sense that these marches were launching a movement. But the enduring work that protests do often can't be seen in the moment. It feels powerful to march, but when and how does marching matter? In this original and richly illustrated account, activist and organizer L.A. Kauffman delves into the history of America's major demonstrations, beginning with the legendary 1963 March on Washington, to reveal what protests accomplish and how their character has shifted over time. Using the signs that demonstrators carry as rich clues to how protests are organized, Kauffman explores the nuanced relationship between the way movements are made and the impact they have. How to Read a Protest sheds new light on the catalytic power of collective action and the bottom-up, women-led model for organizing that's transforming what movements look like and what they can win"--Provided by publisher

Describes the post-1960s radical politics as a turn toward local, particular forms of action & away from broad-based, homogeneous movements for social change. The existence of these microspheres of political action is not new, rather, that they have come to serve as major contexts of public life marks an important transition in US politics. The transition is discussed in terms of a larger transformation from a Fordist, mass consumer economy to a post-Fordist, specialized consumer economy. Fordist citizenship is depicted as about homogeneity & consensus, while post-Fordist citizenship is about diversity, difference, & authenticity. Factsheet Five, a bimonthly compendium of cultural & political marginalia, is discussed as a typical example of the new politics in that it concentrates on the marginal, rather than ordinary, aspects of cultural & political life. It is suggested that a politics of small change can be successful in carving out spaces for alternative communities, but it is unlikely to lead to global change. D. M. Smith

THIS ARTICLE STATES THAT IDENTITY POLITICS EXPRESS THE PRINCIPLE THAT IDENTITY SHOULD BE CENTRAL TO BOTH THE VISION AND PRACTICE OF RADICAL POLITICS. IT IMPLIES NOT ONLY ORGANIZING AROUND SHARED IDENTITY. IDENTITY MOVEMENTS ALSO EXPRESS THE BELIEF THAT IDENTITY ITSELF IS AND SHOULD BE A FUNDAMENTAL FOCUS OF POLITICAL WORK, THIS PAPER TRACES THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF BOTH THE POLITICS AND ANTI-POLITICS OF IDENTITY IN ORDER TO SUGGEST SOME OF THE PITFALLS OF THE FOCUS ON IDENTITY AS A POLITICAL MODEL FOR THE LEFT.

IN FEBRUARY 1988, SOME 700 STUDENT ACTIVISTS FROM 130 CAMPUSES AROUND THE UNTIED STATES GATHERED AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY IN AN ATTEMPT TO "BREAK WITH A DECADE OF POLITICAL DRIFT AND CRISIS WITHIN PROGRESSIVE STUDENT CIRCLES BY GALVANIZING A UNITED VOICE OF THE STUDENT LEFT." WHILE THE CONFERENCE ENDED IN FAILURE, IT WAS A TURNING POINT IN THE HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY YOUTH AND STUDENT MOVEMENTS. THOUGH IT FAILED TO PRODUCE A "UNIFIED VOICE": OR A VIABLE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION, IT PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN BRING TOGETHER FORMERLY ISOLATED ACTIVISTS FROM FAR-FLUNG CAMPUSES, HELPING CREATE AS SENSE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY A DECADE THAT THERE EXISTED A STUDENT MOVEMENT AMOUNTING TO SOMETHING MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS COMPONENT PARTS. SHAKING THE LEGACY OF THE SIXTIES AND FINDING NEW GROUND HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT TASK.

THE GULF WAR SEEMS TO CALL NOT JUST FOR LARGE-SCALE ORGANIZING AND RESISTANCE BUT ALSO FOR A WHOLESALE REASSESSMENT OF OPPOSITIONAL THEORIES AND CRITIQUES. THIS ARTICLE SEEKS TO UNTANGLE THE PERPLEXITIES BY THINKING THROUGH THE WAYS IN WHICH EXISTING FRAMEWORKS OF ANALYSIS CAN STILL AID UNDERSTANDING AND THE WAYS THEY FALL SHORT. IT EXAMINES THE WAR FROM A MARXIST-ECONOMIC, DECLINING HEGEMON, POST-COLD WAR, FEMINIST, MEDIA CONTROL, AND LEGACY-OF-VIETNAM PERSPECTIVE. WHILE NO SINGLE VIEWPOINT SUFFICIENTLY ANSWERS ALL THE QUESTIONS AND CALMS FEARS, THEY ALL CONTRIBUTE SOMEWHAT TO UNDERSTAND.

Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Fragile Democracies in a Post-Truth Era -- 2. Dispossession: Gender and the Construction of Us / Them Dichotomies -- 3. Ascetic Masculinity and Right-Wing Populism in Hindu Nationalist India -- 4. Hegemony as Capitalist Strategy: For a Neo-Marxian Critique of Financialized Capitalism -- 5. Feminism and the Anti-Trump Resistance -- 6. Organizing for Power: The Grassroots Struggle for Inclusive Democracy -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.