Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed.
Author
Mark Engler and Paul Engler
Mark Engler and Paul Engler
Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia and an editorial board member at Dissent magazine. Paul Engler is founding director of the Center for the Working Poor, in Los Angeles. They are the authors of This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century.
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Three Times When the World Broke Open—and Two When it Might Again
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Having experienced recent mass mobilizations, some community organizers are interested in questioning the old divide between "movements" and "organizations"—and in harnessing the power of both.
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Lessons from the Salt March for today's social movements.
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Published in Lebenshaus.
Nur wenige wissen, dass Martin Luther King, Jr. einmal eine Genehmigung zum Tragen einer versteckten Handfeuerwaffe beantragt hat.
Der Juraprofessor Adam Winkler von der UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) schreibt 2011 in seinem …
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Reconsidering Poor People's Movements in the wake of mass uprising.
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Like those of Black Lives Matter activists today, King’s methods were widely criticized—even when they were effective.
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Where insider politics fails, a transformational approach can turn the impossible into the inevitable.
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The strengths and limitations of prefigurative politics.
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How creating a "healthy ecology of change" can help propel social movements.