Tag: Movement Building
Organizing Under Political Stress: Structural Clarity Before Engagement Is a Governance Imperative
Governing Claim When urgency-driven national engagement meets place-based ecosystems managing the lived consequences of democratic decisions, risk is redistributed asymmetrically. If that redistribution is not understood and calibrated in advance,...
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...
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...
Block, Bridge, and Build: A Framework to Forge a More Democratic Future
We are living through a period of upheaval. In this world of uncertainty, one thing is clear: The need for coordinated, collective action is urgent. Recently, the people at Convergence Magazine developed a...
When Loyalties Shift: Americans’ Growing Noncooperation with Federal Abuses of Power
Evidence shows that an increasing number of Americans from all walks of life and from various economic sectors and political identities disapprove of — and are refusing to accept —...
Horizons Welcomes Ruth Moreno as Director for Ecosystem Engagement
The Horizons Project team is excited to announce that Ruth Moreno has joined our team as Director of Ecosystem Engagement. Ruth is a Dominican Afro-Latine strategist, facilitator, and organizer with...
