This Is an Uprising | Mark Engler & Paul Engler
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    • How movements can maintain their radical vision while winning practical reforms

      May 10, 2022

      What Happens After Movement-Backed Politicians Take Office

      April 5, 2022

      Should we disrupt the Democratic Party or try to take it over?

      January 27, 2022

      How to Take Over a Political Party

      October 8, 2021

      Making Our Demands Both Practical and Visionary

      October 7, 2021

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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

    How movements can maintain their radical vision while winning practical reforms

    May 10, 2022

    Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.

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    What Happens After Movement-Backed Politicians Take Office

    April 5, 2022

    As the “co-governance” model gains traction, here’s a look into the promises and pitfalls—and how organizers are reimagining electoral politics.

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    Should we disrupt the Democratic Party or try to take it over?

    January 27, 2022

    Political scientists Frances Fox Piven and Daniel Schlozman have debated whether movements do better to put pressure on political parties from the outside, or to focus on gaining insider power themselves.

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    How to Take Over a Political Party

    October 8, 2021

    Daniel Schlozman argues that, by becoming “anchor groups” within mainstream political parties, movements can secure lasting influence. But is entry into a party worth the price of admission?

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    Making Our Demands Both Practical and Visionary

    October 7, 2021

    How social movements are employing the concept of the “non-reformist reform” to promote far-reaching change.

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    André Gorz and the Path Between Reform and Revolution

    October 7, 2021

    On the history of the “non-reformist reform.”

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    Like Biden’s Bold Moves on Government Spending? Thank Social Movements.

    May 26, 2021

    In spite of the rising popularity of concepts such as the “Overton Window,” the importance of grassroots organizing is still being underestimated.

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    Frances Fox Piven on Polarization as a Tool for Social Change

    May 5, 2021

    The great theorist of disruptive power explains the concept of “dissensus” and how social movements prod elected officials into action by taking controversial stands.

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    Can Social Movements Realign America’s Political Parties to Win Big Change?

    March 25, 2021

    In claiming the goal of “realignment,” groups such as Sunrise and Justice Democrats are reviving an old idea, with hopes of provoking new political transformations.

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    It’s a Myth That Presidents Welcome Movement Pressure — and Biden Is No Different

    February 21, 2021

    Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed.

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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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