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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2013-2014
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Reconsidering Poor People’s Movements in the wake of mass uprising.
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Where insider politics fails, a transformational approach can turn the impossible into the inevitable.
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Hijacked Organic, Limited Local, Faulty Fair Trade: What’s a Radical to Eat?
by Mark Englerby Mark EnglerOn the politics of food.
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The strengths and limitations of prefigurative politics.
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Can theories of movement cycles equip activists to persevere over the long haul?
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Despite the demonstrated power of sacrifice and disruption, it is rare that groups risk either in significant measure — and even rarer that the two are combined in thoughtful and …
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People Power Brought Down the Berlin Wall—Can it Defeat Corporate Rule?
by Mark Englerby Mark EnglerCan people power also be successful in defeating the more diffuse evils of oligarchy and corporate rule?
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Every so often, we witness a period of mass insurgency that seems to defy the accepted rules of politics
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Savvy organizers use mass actions as choice opportunities for recruiting.