This Is an Uprising | Mark Engler & Paul Engler
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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

    Does It Make Sense to Protest a President Who Is Not Persuadable?

    October 15, 2019

    Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.

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    Reviving the General Strike

    September 1, 2019

    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.

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    Lessons from the Pledge of Resistance

    July 15, 2019

    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.

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    No More Miss America: A Collective Memory of Liberatory Action

    September 7, 2018

    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.

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    How ‘No More Miss America’ Announced a Feminist Upheaval

    September 7, 2018

    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.

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    There’s More Than One Way to Strike the Boss

    June 19, 2018

    From fare strikes to sick outs, movements are deploying a variety of creative tactics to disrupt business as usual.

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    Bill McKibben: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 21st Century

    November 8, 2017

    A new foreword to the paperback edition of Mark and Paul Engler’s This Is an Uprising.

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    Just Released: The Resistance Guide!

    September 26, 2017

    “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.”

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    How ACT UP Fought Back

    September 1, 2017

    Lessons from the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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    Help Wanted—Female

    August 30, 2017

    How feminists defeated sexist job ads at the New York Times.

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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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