The progress of the 1960s reflected a combination of the courage of the civil rights movements, the alliance with decent whites, and the leadership of an accidental president.
But others see several obstacles, especially the movement's alliance with Al Qaeda, which has earned it revulsion at home.
Hence the spectacular rise of the "tea-party" movement, an alliance of ordinary people who are spooked by the huge amount of debt that is being racked up on Mr Obama's watch.
It is at the least misleading and at the most hypocritical to imply that a basketball coach, Bob Knight, is part of the problem in college athletics rather than part of the solution as it relates to the current reform movement ("Unusual Alliance Forming to Rein In College Sports," Jan . 17.
"We have decided we will all resign from the national and provincial assemblies as soon as the nomination papers of General Musharraf will be accepted," Imran Khan, an opposition politician, said, speaking for the All Parties Democratic Movement, an alliance of opposition parties that does not include the Pakistan Peoples Partyy of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Through forest patrols, geo-referencing technology and a solid grassroots movement, this alliance of indigenous Kuy communities has protected a 500,000-hectare forest in the Cambodian lowlands.
The Ball will raise funds for the AFROPUNK Global Initiative, the movement's alliance to progress the inclusion of people of color in media.
Not long ago, the State Department created its own group on Facebook called "Alliance of Youth Movements," a coalition of groups from a dozen countries who use Facebook for political organizing.
In the final essay, Ian Christie and Michael Jacobs of the Fabian Society suggest that new political territory is being carved out: "A new politics of quality of life gives fresh energy to an old idea associated with environmentalism and feminism - that the 'personal is political' - and opens up new issues where these movements can form alliances".
Throughout the years, these movements have found alliances with other neighborhood organizations, preservationist and environmental interests.
Chantal Mouffe formulated it like this: to create chains between different movements and create alliances.
