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.
Mark Engler and Paul Engler
Mark Engler and Paul Engler
Mark Engler and Paul Engler are co-directors of the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center, and authors of This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century (Nation Books).
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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 …
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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.
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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.