This panel will present student research from Spring 13 Comm 460C which examines the "work" of social movements to contest, use and transform communicative practice through their mobilization, practices and discourse. We explore a range of groups and efforts to effect social, political and cultural change, and their strategies and tactics. Topics under consideration include veganism as social movement; the Arab, Jasmine, and Maple Springs in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Quebec and other regions; and the mobilization of identity in women's, queer and other movements in North America and elsewhere. We take both a historical perspective and a current one; hoping, whenever possible, to incite some social and political action, through the insights we generate in the class.