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Keeping the March Alive - How Grassroots Activism Survived Trump's America (Paperback)
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How activist groups across the country adapted their strategies and
tactics to their local contexts to keep the protests alive On
January 21, 2017, the day after Trump's inauguration, feminist
activists and allies across many progressive movements assembled
across the United States to express their displeasure with the new
President and his agenda. These marches were unprecedented in size,
bringing together as many as 5.3 million Americans, with at least
408 protests in cities and towns across the country. These protests
were large and dramatic, and had an outsized impact. But, they do
not tell the whole story of this wave of contention. Keeping the
March Alive follows thirty-five progressive groups founded after
the Women's March across ten cities from Amarillo and Atlanta to
Pasadena and Pittsburgh to tell the whole story of how some social
movement organizations survive and thrive while others falter.
Catherine Corrigall-Brown explains how activists navigate their
local context and make strategic decisions about tactics,
coalitions, individual participation, and online technologies to
keep their movements alive. Movements that had the most success in
keeping members engaged and active were those that were able to
adjust their strategies to their particular local contexts. While
in larger and more liberal cities, engaging in expressly political
coalitions and cooperating only with other social movement
organizations was the most successful strategy, fostering broad
coalitions among churches, charities, and businesses was most
successful in smaller, more conservative cities. Keeping the March
Alive is instrumental in understanding how activism and activist
groups can be sustained over time and how larger protest movements
can last.
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