Building a Progressive Movement For Social Change

As progressives who welcome an Obama Administration, we can’t rest on our laurels. We now we have a chance to put the country back on track toward progressive social change, but only if we learn from history. A key lesson is that social movements pull politicians and political movements toward them, not the other way around.

PRA Senior Analyst Chip Berlet shares insights from movements and political moments past and present.

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• Some Strategies for Challenging the Right (Chip Berlet)
• Building Economic Justice
• Building Justice for Organized Labor & Working People
• Building a Just Foreign Policy and Lasting Peace
• Security for Activists, Civil Liberties, Political Repression