...This chapter elucidates the unique modality of a politics of authenticity, focusing on outreach initiatives intended to educate Orthodox communities about LGBT persons with the intention of making space for them. Activists’ strategic storytelling rests on messages of authenticity (“we are of you...

... Guam Puerto Rico US Virgin Islands Washington DC Washington State adolescents citizen activists culture wars lobbyists marijuana legalization marijuana safety parents War on Drugs Over the course of two decades, in the 1970s and 1980s, a new outgrowth of the “cannabis culture wars...

...This book concludes with a note toward vanguard activists who are working to abolish the police state and broaden inclusivity and healing within activist communities. Black Buddhist teachers assert that there is tremendous liberation not only in working to dismantle the police state but also...

...This chapter analyzes the interrelationships among activist bodies, dissenting minds, social spaces that nurture dissent, and policing. It explores the effects of policing tactics on social space, including discourse, and on the social and individual psyche of activists and the wider group...

...This chapter describes antirepression, the tactics activists use to protect themselves from the social control of dissent. This analysis of antirepression work is organized to match this study's three approaches to social control, by looking at space, political economy, and violence. Activists...

... and community activists' efforts to save children. after school programs Laurel district Oakland MacArthur Boulevard Oakland Neighborhood Crime Prevention Councils NCPCs youth loitering laws Bay Area Rapid Transit BART Eastmont Mall Elmhurst MacArthur freeway Oakland CA Oakland Tribune white flight...

...This chapter examines how black intellectual-activists with varying and competing political orientations constructed the iconography of Japan's race-conscious defiance against the global white polity in their poems and prose. It shows how such a work of political imagination, termed pro-Japan...

...This chapter assesses post-civil rights activists in the juvenile justice reform movement (JJRM) from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It examines how the JJRM's movement infrastructure, along with the regional and local political cultures that shaped the orientation of their key activists...

...This chapter discusses transnational lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activism at the international European level and on the ground in Central and Eastern Europe. LGBT activists have imagined a new sociopolitical European community, challenging the frontiers of exclusion...

...This chapter examines the experiences of those who identify as both undocumented and queer: undocuqueer activists. As the narratives in the chapter demonstrate, undocuqueer activist experiences point to the potential promise of an intersectional movement identity in bringing together immigrants...

... drives home the need for both activists and politically engaged scholars to reconfigure their own activities in response, in order to advance community health and robust scientific knowledge about it....

...This chapter singles out the work of several immigrant women activists in the realms of politics, society, and culture. Through thick descriptions of their activities to bring about structural change, the chapter reveals more about the resistant side of agency and the work of individuals who resist...

... Industrial Workers of the World IWW Libertas radical culture Umberto I King festa della frutta May Day Haymarket tragedy Knights of Labor Marx Karl Alba Nuova Anderson Benedict Italian Americans sovversivi cultural life ethnic leaders Italian immigrant activists radicals Carlo Tresca Arturo...

... organizers in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago balanced the interests of activists, entertainers, businesses, and unaffiliated gays and lesbians. Seeing successful Pride marches in these cities, community leaders in Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas, and Detroit held their own events...

...This chapter provides an overview of law and social change among 1970s rape law reformers, emphasizing both their reluctance to work with the state and their reasons for ultimately doing so. Anti-rape activists had deep antipathy toward law that made them outsiders to the legal process. The poor...

...This chapter provides an overview of the initial development of social movement frames around women, work, and independence, examining how the “women's movement” in the 1960s may have inadvertently and unintentionally narrowed the strategic choices available to welfare rights activists in the 1990s...

... a theoretical approach to a practical organizing and political strategy. Race and class consciousness frames are used most often by women of color activists. They are the foundation of a challenge to colorblind racism. Bonilla Silva Eduardo intersectionality marginalization race and class consciousness...

... are to be repeat or onetime participants. Finally, the strategies that groups use to mobilize activists can shape the outcomes for groups as a whole, such as their propensity to mobilize events and survive over time. The context in which the group mobilizes shapes how and why groups make different decisions...

...This chapter talks about how activists utilize religious ritual to strengthen moral commitment and moral agency within the movement. Religious ritual gives activists a way to cultivate collective identity, offer low-risk participation, challenge the boundaries of sacred and profane, and display...

... Wendell Stone Lucy Lockwood Belva American Woman Suffrage Association Fifteenth Amendment National Woman Suffrage Association NWSA Davis Pauline nineteenth-century women women activists women's role Maria Stewart Lucretia Mott Angelina Grimké Sarah Grimké Margaret Fuller Frances Wright Let...