Does It Make Sense to Protest a President Who Is Not Persuadable?
Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.
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
Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.
Organizers in labor, immigrant rights, and climate movements seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.
Thirty-five years ago, Central American solidarity activists developed a model for building resistance before disaster strikes. Their efforts may have stopped a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.
Fifty years ago, a protest against the Miss America pageant kicked off a new phase of the women’s liberation movement. We present a narrative history of that landmark protest, as told by the participants themselves.
A bold and irreverent protest 50 years ago put a renewed women’s liberation movement on the public map—and offers important lessons for today’s resistance.
From fare strikes to sick outs, movements are deploying a variety of creative tactics to disrupt business as usual.
A new foreword to the paperback edition of Mark and Paul Engler’s This Is an Uprising.
“Trump’s election was a massive wake up call – for many reasons. For us, the explosion of participation and emergent formation of the resistance was a wake up call that more people wanted and needed this information than we realized.”
How feminists defeated sexist job ads at the New York Times.