![]() Fifty-four years ago this week, after a sustained and strategic direct action campaign, black leaders within the civil rights movement sat down with white business leaders and hammered out an agreement to desegregate Birmingham. History provides a good answer in the example of Birmingham, Alabama, and in a situation that was perhaps even more extreme than our own. ![]() Some may question whether negotiating with an administration as problematic as Trump’s is even possible, especially given the contentious political environment that is pervasive in the United States today. those things movements are for rather than simply against) organizers and activists will need to employ a different tool: negotiation. In order to bring about positive changes (i.e. The current resistance represents a collective “no” in the face of Trump’s proposals. In taking to the streets, airports and congressional town hall meetings, the resistance has had a decisive impact on blocking the discriminatory travel ban on individuals from Muslim-majority countries, and on rendering the first iteration of the Republican health care replacement plan dead in the water. ![]() The anti-Trump resistance movement has been effective in its nascent stage, utilizing public protests to signal opposition to the president’s plans. ![]()
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