Reconsidering Poor People's Movements in the wake of mass uprising.
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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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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How creating a healthy "ecology of change" can help propel social movements.
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Can theories of movement cycles equip activists to persevere over the long haul?
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The contested legacy of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
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Creare una sana ecologia del cambiamento può spingere i movimenti sociali.
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Popular uprising have ramifications that go beyond immediate legislative results, and they can alter the climate of political debate.
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