Coming Up On Interchange – Reinventing Radicalism: The Lessons of Direct Action

Published: April 14, 2017, 11:04 a.m.

What happened to the American left after the Sixties? This the question L.A. Kauffman seeks to answer in her book, Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism. The book examines how movements from ACT UP to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter have used disruptive tactics to catalyze change against long odds, …