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The article discusses the guidance of John Podesta to next generation of climate activists. Topics include literacy problem in Hamilton County related to black students; variations of 2020 presidential campaign about new generation of climate activists and objectives of Affordable Care Act in fulfilling the climate promises of Build Back Better starting from Joe Biden's defunct domestic agenda.

The article discusses how solidarity may help the public prepare for and deal with various global crises. Topics explored include the implications of solidarity for social movements and change, the social, economic, and ecological problems being faced by communities worldwide, and the initial emergence of the concept of solidarity in legal books of the Roman Empire.

The article discusses the notion of a Resistance movement against U.S. President Donald Trump in relation to branding. Topics include the lack of ideological coherence among the purported Resistance movement, the notion of political norms in relation to Trump's presidency, and the need for an adequate response to white supremacy in the U.S.

The article discusses the success of U.S. activism against climate change in relation to the organization Sunrise Movement and the notion of a Green New Deal (GND). Topics include the role of activist Sara Blazevic and Varshini Prakash in founding Sunrise, the importance of organizational structure in social movement organization, and a sit-in at the office of U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi on November 13, 2018.

Doctor Kilari Anand Paul, the Indian-born Christian evangelical and founder of the United States-based Global Peace Initiative (GPI), is explaining how he convinced Guy Philippe, the leader of Haiti's rebel forces, to turn over a new leaf. It is an unbelievable story, growing progressively more unbelievable as the diminutive, almost wispy Paul details his scolding of the thuggish Philippe. Over the past two decades leading up to 2004, Paul, a self-described "Hindu-born follower of Jesus," has cultivated a peculiar specialty as spiritual adviser to the scum of the earth. Despite such high-profile interventions, Paul remains virtually unknown in the United States. The public face of religion in the United States, Paul and his supporters have found, looks nothing like that of a peculiar, self-promoting Indian minister. Blending tenets of Christianity with elements of social reform--including relentless criticism of government corruption, the dowry system, the caste system, and religious fanaticism in general--Paul's message earned him national attention. While speaking in Los Angeles, California, Paul became acquainted with the late Reverend E.V. Hill, who spiritually counseled Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. Through Hill, Paul met Nelson Bunker Hunt, who is perhaps best known for attempting to corner the silver market in 1980.

Discusses national-greatness conservatism as professed by editors David Brooks and Bill Kristol, who wanted to return the Republican Party to activism. Fact that Kristol's hostility to government bled into anti-Americanism; Information about campaign finance reform and environmental protection; Treatment of foreign policy as an extension of their libertarianism; Focus on the obstacle to a Bush-Kristol alliance; Commitment of Kristol to ban abortion.

Comments on the emergence of men's movements in the United States. American universities' offering of men's studies classes; Growth of the Men's Studies Association's membership; Creation of the male feminist group, the National Organization for Changing Men; Emergence of men's rights activists, sometimes referred to as Free Men; Differences between the men's studies crown and the feminist men; Mission of the National Coalition for Free Men; Different types of men who constitute the nominal men's movement.

The article discusses the decision of South African President F. W. de Klerk to release political activist Nelson Mandela from prison, after twenty-seven years of incarceration. While attending his first press conference after his release, Mandela said that he was surprised by the number of whites in South Africa that identify themselves with what is happening in the country among blacks. Senior police offers in South Africa argued against the release of Mandela because he might create political instability in the country.

Discusses the inability of the American left and the American right to agree on whether the U.S. has won or lost the cold war. Focus on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's pronouncement of the Soviet system; Discussion on ways in which U.S. President Ronald Reagan's embrace of arms control cut into the fund-raising and organizing potential of the peace movement; Controversy to come over Secretary of State James Baker's upcoming meeting in Wyoming with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze; Focus on the purpose of American Foreign policy.

Focuses on Republican racist David Duke. Insistence that his extremism is a thing of the past; Mention of the Duke declaration from the Louisiana House floor on racial or religious tolerance; Step to take an unequivocal moral stand against Duke; Argument that the Republican party should disavow Duke; Information that Duke is emerging as a probable Republican front-runner in the contest against Democratic Senator Bennett Johnson next year; Report that a clique of leading Republican lawmakers is actively working to legitimize Duke as mainstream conservative; Movement to table Duke's bill against minority set-aside contracts.

Focuses on the situation of the social classes, institutions, and cultural patterns that emerged from the French Revolution. Comments on the battle carried on by the Free Thought movement; Discussion of the consequences of the French Revolution on the people of France; Discussion of the views of sociologist Henri Mendras on the social changes that have taken place in France.

Focuses on the civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and his capacity to organize boycotts. Distinction between a noble boycott and an old-fashioned shakedown; Career background of Jackson; Discussion on the PUSH campaign of Jackson related to corporate boycotts; Adoption of affirmative action by Jackson in his pursuit of quotas for black companies and professionals who deal with major corporations.

Focuses on the violent demonstrations by Arabs in Israel. Need for a far-reaching geographical and functional compromise so that Israel does not rule over an additional million and a half Palestinians and the lands on which they live; Delusion in the Palestinian populace that makes some Israelis feel self-righteous, though there is no shortage of intransigence and delusion among the Israelis themselves; View of Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin that rioting is another way of terrorism.

Presents information on issues which resulted due to the New Left student movement of the 1960s. Information that after the rigor mortis of the New Left, many of its former activists and sympathizers chose to get advanced degrees and ascend the academic ladder to professorships in the universities; Opinion of Ellen W. Schrecker, professor of history at Princeton University, that the temptation to trade the frustrations of politics for the pleasure of scholarship is strong; Reference to the book titled "No Ivory Tower," by Schrecker; Note on the way the history of American Communism is now being presented by post-New Left historians.

Expresses skepticism on the status given to late U.S. Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, by both the Democratic and Republican parties. Details of the speeches given by U.S. President Ronald Reagan mentioning Jackson; Formation of "Coalition for a Democratic Majority" in honor of Jackson; Discussion on Jackson's position in defense, pro-labor stance and environmentalism.

Focuses on the political activity of the National Organization for Women in the United States during the mid-1980's. Reference to the book "A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America," by Sylvia Ann Hewlett; History of liberal feminism; Successes of the egalitarian tradition of feminism from the 19th Amendment in 1920 to Roe vs. wade in 1973.

Calls for a radical shift in the rhetoric of the pro-choice movement and consciousness about abortion. Ways of measuring the effects of the movement's abandonment of an ethical core; Remarks regarding the need to contextualize the fight to defend abortion rights within a moral framework that admits that the death of a fetus is a real death; Debate regarding the personhood of a fetus; Reasons behind some abortions; Comments on the paradigm of sin and redemption.

Explores the social, political and cultural issues related to scent and human capacity to smell. Difference in the olfactory propensities of French and Americans; Discussion on the growing anti-scent movement in the U.S.; Claim that racism has been predicated on the belief that one could detect the characteristic of another smell; Idea of philosopher Emmanuel Kant about human's sense of smell; Famous French political and historical figures who have unusual like or dislike toward a particular smell.

Examines the feminist aversion to the science of evolutionary psychology. Criticism on feminists for their failure to understand human nature; Logic of evolutionary psychology that can help feminists frame a better and more practical way to deal with the problem they observe about gender relations; Similarity between feminism and Marxism in their failure to understand human nature; Natural differences between male and female; Accurate perception of social reality by feminists and Marxists.

Discusses the gay rights movement at the Stonewall bar in Greenwich Village. Description of the argument among gay leaders about the planning of Stonewall 25; Practice of Stonewall of indiscriminately linking the movement for gay equal rights with ay left-wing cause; Reference to the book "A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society"; Information on the first-generation post-Stonewall gay activists.

Examines the significance of the evangelical New Right in the Republican Presidential Convention in the U.S. Debate on the separation of church and state; Factors influencing the ascending importance of the religious right; Political involvement of religious leaders; Indications of politics and religious activity.

Discusses the history of the Afro-American civil rights movement. Significance of the 1963 March to Washington in the protest against racial discrimination in the U.S.; Reasons for the outpouring of humanity during the march; Inspiration provided by Martin Luther King Jr. and his assassination; Failure of some black leaders to emulate King's capacity to inspire mass movement of whites as well as blacks; Problems facing black leadership and civil rights organizations; Emergence of black politicians and other achievements of the Afro-American civil rights movement; Condition of Afro-Americans under the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Comments on the Catholic Church's use of the pulpit and pastoral letters to create awareness for its positions on various social and political issues in the U.S. Background on the Church's social doctrine; Attention stirred by the bishops' draft pastoral letter on nuclear war; Institutional changes that have thrust politics into the center of Catholic life; Growth of the Church's institutional resources devoted to the concerns of social justice; Redirection of religious energy into the secular realm, particularly on the part of the clergy; Rise in the number of clerics and Church officials that are professionally involved in Church-sponsored social activism.

Focuses on the emergence of Solidarity, a trade union movement in Poland founded in 1980. Overview of the socio-political conditions in Poland; Effect of the political and social crisis on the success of economic reforms; Polish press' coverage of Solidarity; Continuing conflicts between Solidarity and the government; Structure and functions of Solidarity; Solidarity's transformation of the old trade union movement; How Solidarity was formed; Solidarity representative Zbigniew Gryszkiewicz's comments on the issues.

Reconsiders the arguments of those who opposed the Vietnam War. Argument that the victory of the Viet Cong is desirable because only a left-authoritarian government could cope with the problems of the third world; Argument that the war was morally wrong because the U.S. is imposing its imperial will on the Vietnamese; Argument that the costs of winning the war had become so enormous; Argument that the war in Vietnam was partly an inherited colonial war, partly a civil war between two Vietnamese camps, and partly a battleground in the worldwide conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Focuses on Marion S. Barry, Mayor of Washington D.C. Contributions of Barry to various political and social movements of the 1960s; His educational and professional background; Discussion of his increasing popularity in the political circles of Washington and local civil rights movement; Views of Joseph L. Rauh, a prominent Washington attorney, about Barry.

Presents an update on the U.S. economy and politics as of December 1977. Information on the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1977; Ridicule of the act by Richard Nixon's former economic advisor, Herbert Stein; Information that the bill requires the President to file an economic report each year with Congress; Issue on the time limit for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment; Plan of the Carter administration to help the U.S. steel companies by raising barriers against cheap steel imports.

Deals with the support of the National Organization for Women in the U.S. for the passage of laws against sex discrimination in employment. Provisions of the Equal Rights Amendment; Information on a government conference held in Houston, Texas on the issue of status of women in the society; Objective of the conference was to adopt a "National Plan of Action" for women; Reaction of some women movement leaders to the government's espousal of the movements.

Comments on the behavior of the young generation during the year 1960 to 1969 in the U.S. Information on political activism; Discussion of the conflicting views of the youngsters; View that the generation was outward-turning, sharing and politicized; Comparison of the developments taken during 1950s and 1960s; Focus on the American literature; Description of various achievements of the youth movement.

Presents information about the social conditions in Tennessee. Description about the civil rights movement in the state; Position of Fayette County of Tennessee among the poorest counties in the United States; Percentage of violence committed by the white minority; Economic and political conditions; Mortality rate of the newborn children due to hunger, sanitation and others; Improvement in health services in Tennessee after the civil rights movement; Brief information about conditions of students in Haywood and Fayette County; Problem of dental care facilities in Haywood County; Attitude of farmers towards Agricultural Marketing Project initiated by students in the state.

Focuses on the contribution of Governor Cesar Chavez to the development of farm labor in California. Points of conflict between Chavez and the union Teamsters; Features of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act signed by Teamsters and the United Farm Workers of America, formed by Chavez; Statement of Chavez that farm workers could be force an entire industry to sign a contract with their union leaders; Use of the method of boycott, by Chavez to improve the conditions of farm labor in California; Planning of Chavez to boycott against United Brands' Chiquita bananas to force InterHarvest to sign a contract with his union; Assurance of Chavez that his union would replace the crew leader system with union-run hiring halls; Drawbacks of the system; Significance of social movements, explained by Chavez; Concerns of workers while signing contracts with Chavez; Victory of the Teamsters in this February's farmworker elections.

Focuses on the political activities of the New Left in the U.S. Admiration for the energy of the young radicals; Response of socialists to the demonstrations against the war in Vietnam; Disappointment on the difficulties and opportunism of the political system; Fundamental pattern of American radicalism; Socialism of Norman Thomas; Destruction of freedom in the name of total transformation of man; Complications of democratic radicalism.

Focuses on the contribution of the Watergate Trial on the wave of radical protest in the U.S. Effects of the exposure of the crime and scandal in highest office on radicalism and militant activism; Vindication for the radicals of the 1960s; Sudden emergence of the youth revolt; Radicalization and politicization of universities; Reassessment of the American youth rebellion in the 1960s; Scenario of retributive justice.

Recounts a hunger strike among the Refuseniks advocating for a legal permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union. Citations of the scientists and doctors involved in the hunger strike; Motives behind the refusal of the Soviet government to give a legal exit to the Jews; Impetus to the tension between the Refuseniks and other immigrants in the region; Organization of a demonstration by a former senior scientist in a research institute in Refusenik.

This article analyzes the principle factor in the decline of the late Joseph McCarthy and thus a large factor in the decline of McCarthyism. As per the author, it was due to the man's lack of a sense of mission. Had he believed with any passion either in what he was saying or in the country's need for his services he would not have allowed the defeats he sustained in 1954 in the Army-McCarthy hearings and in the censure proceedings in the Senate to have driven him to the despair and alcoholism that characterized his later days. McCarthy showed that there could be a national demagogue, and it seems to me clear that, had he been a somewhat different sort, his daily prodigies need not have ended in 1954.

The article presents a report on how social conditions of China have changed. Like sturdy kaolicing stalks, the Chinese people would bend briefly in the wind of new vicissitudes, but the good earth of China would somehow, in the end, steady their roots as it had so many times before. In China, however, the supple spirit of the people--active, usually cheerful, sometimes feckless--tended to obscure the glacier-like process of erosion and social change. During the past decade, the Chinese world have never truly met on a mature basis of Communists have gone far in converting the heterogene-mutual respect and confidence.

The article focuses on the nationalist movement and French authority in Morocco. For the past five years, French officials and the local French press have been making allusions to connections between the Moroccan Nationalist movement and the Communist Party. The many Communist publications on file do show that the Communist Party in Morocco has gone far in identifying itself with a program which might win Nationalist sympathy. The Communists were so determined to gain Nationalist support that in a declaration on December 3, 1953, they took up the Nationalists' cry for the return of the exiled Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, although the Sultan had earlier denounced the Communist Party publicly in no uncertain terms.

The article reports and comments on current events in the news during the week of April 29, 1972. A number of items are covered including the conduct of the war in Vietnam by the administration of U.S. president Richard Nixon, the possibility of appointing an African American ambassador to South Africa and the impact of activists promoting social change on corporate stockholder meetings.

Discusses the ideology and the place of Palestinian Arabs in the world. Social conditions of Palestinian Arabs; View that Palestinian Arabs have the kind of education and the kind of peculiar historic experience that have made them a rare modern people in the Arab world; Claims that Palestinians are the most advanced people in the world; Qualities that distinguish Palestinians from other revolutionary movements; Events that made the Palestinians consider themselves the vanguard of the Arab world.

Comments on the feelings of distrust among masses of Afro-Americans during the term of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Problems encountered by the movements of social change; Promises addressed by Nixon to the white Southeners but never the blacks; Efforts of liberals to appease the black revolutionaries; Economic problems contributing to the social problems.

Comments on economic and political power of African American people in the U.S. Role of ethnic political machines and other ethnic institutions in the rise of the minorities; Opinion that the African American revolutions such as the civil rights protests, the spreading violence in the cities, and the controversy over black power are reflections of economic changes; Impact of technological developments on the occupations of African Americans; Information on the launch of civil rights movement by African Americans; Differences in the government plans for organized and unorganized labor.

Describes the situation of the Communist Party of the United States. Massive loss of membership during the McCarthyist period and subsequent recruitment of a younger generation; Sources of tension between communists and the New Left, including the latter's anti-communism; View of the communists that socialism is inevitable in the U.S.; Relations with the Black Left; Relative sanguinity about radical developments in the U.S.; Existence of at least 15 Marxist factions on the Left.

Examines the racial problem in Washington, D.C. as of 1966. Privileges given to the white minority; Problem associated with the representation of African Americans in different sectors and groupings; Formation of the social movement Free D.C. Movement; Information on African American civil rights movements in the city.

Investigates the reason behind the arrests of civil rights protesters in Albany, Georgia in 1967. Implications of the arrests for the prevalence of race segregation in the state; Laws in the state which prohibit public distribution of handbills and political leaflets; Effects of the arrest on the increasing level of tension and violence in the county. INSET: Waiting in the Wings..

Explains that Brazil is on the brink of a social revolution as of March 19, 1962. Status of the government of President Janio Quadros; Support of the Communist Party of Luis Carlos Prestes to the government of Quadros; Factors that pushed Brazil to the brink of social revolution; Increase in the social discontent in the country; Emergence of an extreme left-wing movement in the country.

Focuses on the politics and government in Vietnam. Comments on the U.S. military relations with Vietnam; Cooperation of Communist guerrillas with non-Communists; Rise of the government's youth movement; Loss of Vietnamese in the war; Dismissal of the criticism of the Saigon regime; Discussion of the American official reporting on Vietnam.

The article discusses the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the U.S. and the efforts by Republican politicians like President Donald Trump, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to campaign against the group. Also cited are BLM's campaign against racism and police brutality, and Trump's claim that his rival Joe Biden also wants to abolish and defund the police.

The author argues that independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader has always been an extremist whose paranoia and unwillingness to compromise frequently sabotaged the causes he promoted. As Ralph Nader prepares for another spoiler run at the presidency, liberals are again wringing their hands at the damage he may do not only to Democrats' chances of retaking the White House but to his own reputation as well. The good-man-who-went-wrong assessment of Nader is virtually unchallenged among liberals. But, if you think about it for a moment, it's awfully strange. The qualities that liberals have observed in him of late--the monomania, the vindictiveness, the rage against pragmatic liberalism--have been present all along. Indeed, an un-blinkered look at Nader's public life shows that his presidential campaigns represent not a betrayal of his earlier career but its apotheosis. Nader made his name with the 1965 publication of "Unsafe at Any Speed," an expose of the Chevy Corvair. Few realize that Nader's campaign against the Corvair was only the most visible edge of an uncompromising, conspiratorial worldview. Nader believed not only that the Corvair was dangerous but that General Motors (GM) knew it was. Nader's friends recalled that often he would act furtively, speaking in code, always convinced he was being monitored or phone-tapped. Nader rightly wins credit for spurring progress during the era. And yet, even during his heyday, Nader habitually denounced liberals and their work, sabotaging the very causes he claimed to believe in. For Nader, it was almost axiomatic that anybody who disagreed with him was a corporate lackey.

Considers problems with using gender in the U.S. as a way to determine how public-health dollars are spent. Efforts by men's-health activists to gain parity with spending on women's health; Report that gender activism may cause more problems than it solves; Attitude of the women's movement toward the men's-health movement; Report that women's health gained political prominence in the early 1990s.

Focuses on the slavery-reparations movement in the United States, and the possible economic implications thereof. Purpose of the movement, to demand the U.S. government to compensate blacks for their ancestors being enslaved; Thoughts of Adjua Aiyetoro of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA); Possibility that the movement could materialize into real compensation.