Gandhi’s Strategy for Success — Use More than One Strategy
How creating a “healthy ecology of change” can help propel social movements.
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!
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
[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
[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
How creating a “healthy ecology of change” can help propel social movements.
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…
Lessons from the George W. Bush years.
Despite the cynics, social movement uprisings are producing some remarkable wins.
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.
Three Times When the World Broke Open– and Two When it Might Again
Popular uprising have ramifications that go beyond immediate legislative results, and they can alter the climate of political debate.
Like those of Black Lives Matter activists today, King’s methods were widely criticized— even when they were effective.
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.
Lessons from the Salt March for today’s social movements.