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		<title>a resource for students on social movements and activism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recorded interview with the Story Preservation Initiative, I discuss &#8220;landmark cases and civic turning points&#8212;including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Brown v. Board of Education, the United Farm Workers boycott, and Watergate&#8212;to illustrate how people came together to reinforce core democratic principles of equality, justice, and the rule of law.&#8221; This recording and related [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35046">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>strategies for boycotts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an excerpt from Steve Dubb&#8217;s article, &#8220;On Boycotts and Blackouts, Mobilizing and Organizing: Understanding the Basics&#8221; in Nonprofit Quarterly (Dec. 15). Peter Levine, political science and philosophy professor at Tufts University, writing after the February 28 single-day general boycott,&#160;outlined&#160;the conditions that enable targeted boycotts to succeed: Although Levine does not raise this point, [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35034">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>youth activism now</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am grateful to have frequent opportunities to talk with grassroots democracy groups about tactics and methods. My current standard talk is here (but I like to offer it as a discussion rather than a lecture). The groups that have invited me this year tend to be quite grey&#8211;well populated by retirees. I actually believe [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34595">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>tips for democracy activists in 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a 22-minute video of me offering suggestions and diagnostic questions for activists in nonviolent, pro-democracy movements in the USA right now, and for those want to get involved. I have been offering these ideas in interactive webinars and in-person meetings. In those settings, I don&#8217;t lecture; we discuss. For this publicly accessible video, [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34504">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the nonviolent response</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not yet clear whether the US has entered an authoritarian period or a right-wing period (or both), because the political struggle is still underway and by no means resolved. But it is pretty clear that we have entered a period of instability or unrest, which is quite common in global perspective but especially dangerous [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34434">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>a checklist for democracy activists</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34414</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Americans are working to defend democracy, but we need even more. People with diverse agendas and various diagnoses of our current problems must take action right now. There are several legitimate theories of our crisis. We need people to address whatever aspects resonate most with them, coming from their diverse backgrounds and viewpoints. I [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34414">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>learning from the Great Salt March: on civil disobedience and breaking through to mass opinion</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34314</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Erica Chenoweth,&#160;Soha Hammam,&#160;Jeremy Pressman, and&#160;Christopher Wiley Shay estimate that the No Kings protests this June were among the largest in American history, and the number of protests is growing faster than in 2017 (see the graph above). Protesting has several purposes, including advertising a movement and recruiting people to take other actions. But protests can [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34314">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>how to engage our universities in this crisis</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33839</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write after the Trump Administration has abducted our beloved student Rumeyza &#214;zt&#252;rk (please read the profile of her by her department) for contributing a well-reasoned op-ed to our campus discussion. Many of us are familiar with a framework in which the university is a powerful institution with resources and discretion. For example, it decides [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33839">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the state of nonviolent grassroots resistance</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33795</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nonviolence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far, Trump and Musk are at least as aggressive as I had expected and much smarter. Prominent institutions appear to be buckling&#8211;notably, law firms, universities, and Democratic senators. There is some angst about an apparent lack of popular resistance. Indeed, we still need more grassroots opposition. However, Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, and Soha Hammam&#160;show [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33795">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>features of effective boycotts</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33673</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 15:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[civic theory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Classic boycotts have these features: I am not posting this list to cast shade on the national boycott that took place on Feb. 28. I participated! And some of these components may have been in place. For example, people who boycotted through &#8220;Black churches with longstanding social justice ministries (like Trinity UCC in Chicago)&#8221; did [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33673">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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