Category: Resources
Defending Local Stability: The Business Response
How business owners and leaders can prepare for possible federal deployments, protect their teams, and advocate for their communities.
Democracy & Belonging: Learning Across the Atlantic
Listen to powerful conversations with organizers, thinkers, and movement builders in the U.S and Europe as they explore what it really takes to strengthen democracy from the inside out. This...
Facilitating a Big Tent: Critical Connections for Pro-Democracy Organizing
As we enter the second year of the current administration in the United States, calls for coming together to collaborate across siloes within the pro-democracy sector are louder than ever....
Nonviolent Action Resources and Training
Nonviolent movements are statistically more effective at combatting authoritarianism than violent resistance. Anyone can engage in nonviolent action: from quiet acts of disruption to consumer boycotts to walkouts to large-scale protests....
Authoritarianism: How You Know It When You See It
What is democracy? Forms of rights-based representative government in which: elected government leadership is constrained by constitutionalism, the rule of law, the separation of powers, the free expression of the...
Race and Democracy
Within the broad ecosystem of social change in the US, we often find a lack of alignment between racial justice and pro-democracy agendas. At best, there are siloed efforts of...
Big Tents and Collective Action Can Defeat Authoritarianism
In their New York Times essay, Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt argue that the United States has crossed over into a form of competitive authoritarianism, a system that may...
The Brain on Authoritarianism
The Horizons Project and Beyond Conflict partnered to create this video on 'The Brain on Authoritarianism' to support broad-based "united front" organizing in response to the rising authoritarian threat in...
Korean Clergy and Monastics Resist Martial Law
“Photo: Marcelo Schneider / WCC”Time Period: December 2024Location: South KoreaMain Actors: Protestant and Catholic clergy, Buddhist monastic leadersTactics:— Letters of opposition or support— Signed public statements— Prayer and worship— Assemblies of protest or support...
