Social movements are human structures capable of transforming power relations that exert oppression and injustice on certain social groups. To exercise this social influence it is necessary to build popular power to change the cultural and structural elements that maintain the status quo.

Social movements live and reproduce like a living organism. Each cell is fundamental to the survival of the macroorganism, especially when the movement faces attacks from its opponents such as attempts at political co-optation, police infiltration or disinformation campaigns to discredit the movement. In this lesson, we will identify the pillars of the movement. Some of them will be analyzed in detail in other courses of the Digital Organizing program.

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