Resistance Strategies

Stories are dangerous. They have the ability to re-make the world. The Harry Potter Alliance was founded to create a Dumbledore’s army of Harry Potter fans that work for justice in the real world.

The positive reception of Budrus in the U.S. says a lot about the political climate today. The right-wing “pro-Israel” movement is going through a tough time. It has always built its public appeal on one simple narrative: Israel wants peace, but it must fight to ward off implacable violence from its enemies. Anything Israel does is justified because it’s in self-defense.

Last year, a coalition of Latino/a groups successfully fought to remove anti-immigrant pundit Lou Dobbs from CNN. Political Research Associates Executive Director Tarso Luís Ramos spoke to Presente.org co-founder Roberto Lovato to find out how they did it.

The popular term “spiritual but not religious” only goes so far in describing an event like this. I think Burning Man shows us the enduring importance of ritual as a vehicle through which humans connect with one another and as well as with a mysterious “more,” while also showing us how these expressions are increasingly displaced outside the bounds of the dominant Western cultural concepts of “religion.”

On yearning for a world where taxes go to pay for education, for equal rights, and for leveling the playing field. Taxes for justice? How incredibly radical.

A response to a recent RD article/interview with filmmaker Lisa Darden.

Does the Institute for Religion and Democracy oppose freedom of conscience for service members?

For King, the challenges of a dawning age required a recognition that globalization had produced what he called a geographical togetherness and that this togetherness very much needed a spiritual grounding.

Two scholars respond to Shalom Goldman’s essay, “Gandhi, His Grandson, Israel, and the Jews.”

When it comes to peace activism, holding signs might not always be enough, says sociologist Sharon Nepstad. In this interview she explains why, and talks about the unique historical role of religion in nonviolent protest.