Tagged: social movement theories

by socmatters The growing rate of home foreclosures has devastated individuals, families, neighborhoods and communities across the United States.   The Washington Post reported that a group of “foreclosees” recently engaged in collective action in response to this crisis.  The small group marched into the Baltimore office of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in an effort to get some kind of public and official response from “The Man”.  These are the real people behind the impersonal news stories peppering...