Movement Power

The Extinction Rebellion founders’ reliance on the momentum model was a crucial factor in the project’s early innovations and successes.

A review of 'We Need To Talk About Climate: How Citizens’ Assemblies Can Help Us Solve The Climate Crisis' by Graham Smith.

How do we manage democracy within our movements?

A response to Roger Hallam’s revolutionary turn.

'Anyone looking to change the world in 2025 could learn a lot from Extinction Rebellion’s rise.'

State oppression will not stop climate activism, but will instead ensure climate breakdown leads to revolution.

Extinction Rebellion won't happen again. But the movement built a foundation that a new revolutionary movement can usefully deploy.

Extinction Rebellion had a secret sauce: and we should all be using it now.

Can Climate Camp Scotland’s ‘non accountable’ direct action be the future as our rights to protest are taken away.

Introducing a new series exploring a hybrid model of activism and campaigning from The Ecologist online.

Environmentalism from below: Ashley Dawson in conversation.

The 'movement power' method promises to deliver active popular support for sweeping social change. Here's how it works.

We can learn from systems theory and the 'shock doctrine' to formulate an effective and ethical response to climate crises.

The movement power model of civil resistance can only succeed when its strategy informs and magnifies its tactics - its front line actions.

A mass movement can mobilise around strategic campaigns with instrumental demands - and around prefigurative campaigns with symbolic demands.

A successful campaign needs unity in its aims and actions, but plurality and autonomy for its activists.

'The success of Vegans Support the Farmers shows both vegans and farmers have a hunger for real solutions and a better future for us and our families.'

The movement power approach to building mass movements has many benefits - but also some problems. So how to proceed?

The hybrid model of mass organising is based on both the structure and momentum traditions. So what is the history of successful protest, and how can it inform our work today?

The hybrid organising model is formed from the DNA of its two parents – the structure and momentum traditions – which will ensure the success of its offspring.

A mass movement for climate action can be deployed though a cycle of momentum, organisational theorists explain.

How do we seed mass social movements that can avert cataclysmic climate breakdown?

Should climate protesters picket an MP at home?

'When Steve Baker MP joined the Tufton Street denialist organisation the Global Warming Policy Foundation we had to take a stand.'