Coming into town as a typical labor union wouldn’t do any good. To build community power, we would have to create a movement.

How we human beings think of ourselves as being able to make social and political change is shaped — or distorted — by how we understand the past.

Civil resistance campaigns should avoid the belief that the people and the military are always “one hand,” as has been chanted so often in Egypt.

It wasn’t really until I was standing on the west side of Hoboken, N.J., in water and oil up to my thigh, that climate change really made sense.