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Consciousness Raising: How Talking Changes Everything
Modern History

Consciousness Raising: How Talking Changes Everything

How feminist conversation circles invented a method for turning personal frustration into political power

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SystemShift
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Solidarity Forever: How Unions Build Lasting Bonds
Modern History

Solidarity Forever: How Unions Build Lasting Bonds

The hidden architecture of collective action: how rituals, mutual aid, and membership boundaries transform individuals into movements

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SystemShift
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How Social Movements Die
Modern History

How Social Movements Die

Victory, violence, and internal fracture—the forces that dissolve even the most powerful social movements

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SystemShift
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Why Some Revolutions Devour Their Children
Modern History

Why Some Revolutions Devour Their Children

Movements built on liberation often become machines of repression—not by accident, but through predictable structural pressures

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SystemShift
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Mutual Aid: Why Neighbors Helping Neighbors Changes Politics
Modern History

Mutual Aid: Why Neighbors Helping Neighbors Changes Politics

Before people march together, they usually survive together first—and that changes everything

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SystemShift
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How Cooperatives Challenge Corporate Power Without Revolution
Modern History

How Cooperatives Challenge Corporate Power Without Revolution

Worker-owned businesses prove democratic economies can compete—here's how they scale and where they struggle

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SystemShift
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The Hidden History of Rent Strikes
Modern History

The Hidden History of Rent Strikes

How tenant movements transformed shared grievances into collective power and reshaped housing law through strategic organizing

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SystemShift
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The Wobblies' Lost Vision: Industrial Unionism as Revolutionary Strategy
Modern History

The Wobblies' Lost Vision: Industrial Unionism as Revolutionary Strategy

How the IWW's radical experiment in worker solidarity revealed lasting truths about building collective power across difference

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SystemShift
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Liberation Theology: When Faith Becomes Revolutionary
Modern History

Liberation Theology: When Faith Becomes Revolutionary

How poor Latin American communities transformed Bible study into a blueprint for challenging power structures and inspiring global social movements.

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SystemShift
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How Apartheid Fell: The Multidimensional Struggle That Worked
Modern History

How Apartheid Fell: The Multidimensional Struggle That Worked

How internal resistance, global solidarity, and strategic negotiation combined to dismantle one of history's most entrenched systems of oppression.

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SystemShift
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Why Strikes Work: The Hidden Mechanics of Labor Power
Modern History

Why Strikes Work: The Hidden Mechanics of Labor Power

The structural mechanics that transform collective action from symbolic protest into genuine leverage against entrenched power.

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SystemShift
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The Suffragette Playbook: Tactics That Changed Democracy Forever
Modern History

The Suffragette Playbook: Tactics That Changed Democracy Forever

How suffragettes developed protest tactics that movements still use today to win rights against hostile institutions

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The Art of the Boycott: When Consumer Power Actually Works
Modern History

The Art of the Boycott: When Consumer Power Actually Works

Strategic analysis of why some consumer campaigns force corporate change while others become forgotten hashtags within weeks.

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SystemShift
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