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The United States and Lebanon are, in some ways, very different political contexts, and yet organizers face strikingly similar dilemmas and pitfalls in both countries. Both Nicole Carty and Jean Kassir have been actively involved in politics since 2011\u2014Carty in the United States and Kassir in Lebanon. In this episode of \u201cTransnational Trends in Citizenship\u201d\u2014the new season of Order from Ashes\u2014the two activists share their insights.\nIn their experience, movements go through similar cycles. Carty and Kassir emphasize the importance of developing movement infrastructure to avoid the pitfalls associated with these cycles, and to capitalize on moments of mass mobilization\u2014to seize opportunity. Movements must also be able to create moments, not just react to them.\xa0\nA lack of transmission of skills between generations and a disconnect between movements causes stagnation and the repetition of mistakes. Both activists describe learning lessons from movements across the globe in terms of tactics, discourse, and political imagination. And both emphasize careful thinking about learning and the transmission of skills.\xa0\nBy fostering both transnational and intergenerational learning, movements may have some hope of avoiding the familiar pitfalls.\nThis podcast is the final of a special eight-part season of Order from Ashes, as part of \u201cTransnational Trends in Citizenship: Authoritarianism and the Emerging Global Culture of Resistance,\u201d a TCF project supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Open Society Foundations.\xa0\nParticipants include:\xa0\nJean Kassir, co-founder of Lebanese media platform Megaphone\nNicole Carty, core team member, Momentum, a social movement incubator and training institute\nNaira Antoun, director, Transnational Trends in Citizenship, Century International