Beautiful Trouble

The people who brought you Beautiful Trouble track the new creative edge emerging among movements across the globe.

Why politicians (sometimes) win and how we can stop them

Allowing politicians to dictate where and when to do actions is a guaranteed way to lose. Winning means we stay on our own timeline.

February 26, 2014

Did nonviolence fail in Egypt?

Three years after the resignation of Mubarak, the Egyptian Revolution provides an example of what mass, disruptive protest can accomplish — and what it can’t.

and Paul Engler
February 21, 2014

How arts and organizing helped defeat Alabama’s anti-immigration law

Gwendolyn Ferreti Manjarrez of Somos Tuscaloosa discusses the role of art making in the Alabama immigrant justice movement’s victory over HB 56.

February 5, 2014

Reflections on Pete Seeger’s life well sung

Pete’s passing was not a surprise, and yet to have someone gone after being around for almost 100 years is still unbelievable.

January 28, 2014

Not a hacker or whistleblower? Here’s how you can still liberate secret documents

Since the FBI break-in in Media, Pa., a set of tactics have emerged to gain access to documents for people who don’t have computer hacking skills or inside access to become whistleblowers.

January 24, 2014

When Martin Luther King gave up his guns

It took years for King to understand nonviolence not merely as a moral force, but as an effective strategy for leveraging political change. Yet his embrace of that idea allowed him to shape history.

and Paul Engler
January 15, 2014
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