This Is an Uprising | Mark Engler & Paul Engler
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      October 15, 2019

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      September 1, 2019

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      July 15, 2019

      No More Miss America: A Collective Memory of Liberatory Action

      September 7, 2018

      How ‘No More Miss America’ Announced a Feminist Upheaval

      September 7, 2018

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      Lessons from the Pledge of Resistance

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      No More Miss America: A Collective Memory of Liberatory Action

      September 7, 2018

      How ‘No More Miss America’ Announced a Feminist Upheaval

      September 7, 2018

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This Is an Uprising | Mark Engler & Paul Engler

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    “Absorbing… Ambitious… Indispensable. A genuine gift to social movements everywhere.” —Naomi Klein

    An explosive new book from authors Mark and Paul Engler on how nonviolent revolt is shaping the twenty-first century. Now available at booksellers everywhere!

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    "For those who dare to dream

    that truly transformational, even revolutionary
    change might be possible... in our lifetimes (but
    who wonder what strategies or tactics could
    possibly achieve a monumental shift in
    consciousness), this book is for you."

    —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

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    "This is a landmark book.

    [It] puts a name on . . . a powerful method for
    making real change fast. And real change fast is
    in fact what our world requires."

    —Bill McKibben, author and co-founder of 350.org

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    "Certain to become a seminal text...

    [The authors] brilliantly illuminate the debates
    between advocates of mass mobilization, organization
    building, nonviolence, and disruption."

    —Frances Fox Piven, author of Poor People’s Movements

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  • Articles

    Gandhi’s Strategy for Success — Use More than One Strategy

    March 17, 2017

    How creating a “healthy ecology of change” can help propel social movements.

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    When Women Revolted

    January 18, 2017

    A wave of disruptive protest fifty years ago helped put women’s liberation on the map–and showcased a radical feminist vision of that remains relevant in the age of Trump. By…

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    Why Targeting Corporate Democrats is Part of the Fight Against Trump

    November 21, 2016

    Lessons from the George W. Bush years.

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    Claiming our Victories

    April 4, 2016

    Despite the cynics, social movement uprisings are producing some remarkable wins.

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    Why Iowa Needs an Uprising

    March 25, 2016

    Whether it’s progress on civil rights, ending child labor, or securing women the vote, history tells us that major advances in American life have come from citizens’ movements organizing from below rather than from timid politicians cutting deals on high.

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    In Praise of Impractical Movements

    March 7, 2016

    Three Times When the World Broke Open– and Two When it Might Again

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    The Massive Immigrants Rights Protests of 2006 are Still Changing Politics

    March 4, 2016

    Popular uprising have ramifications that go beyond immediate legislative results, and they can alter the climate of political debate.

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    Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Disruptor, Not a Peacemaker

    January 18, 2016

    Like those of Black Lives Matter activists today, King’s methods were widely criticized— even when they were effective.

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    Why MLK Chose Not to Run for President

    January 18, 2016

    Like Bernie Sanders today, Martin Luther King, Jr. considered launching a presidential campaign to oppose military interventionism and promote democratic socialism. Here’s why he decided against it.

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    How Did Gandhi Win?

    December 8, 2015

    Lessons from the Salt March for today’s social movements.

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The Authors

Mark Engler, a writer based in Philadelphia, is an editorial board member at Dissent, a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine, and author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books).

Paul Engler is founding director of the Center for the Working Poor, based in Los Angeles. He worked for more than a decade as an organizer in the immigrant rights, global justice, and labor movements.

The authors can be reached by e-mail at engler@democracyuprising.com.

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