Landmark Book on Nonviolent Resistance!
Special Offer for Defenders of Immigrant Rights: Buy a signed copy direct from authors for more than 25% off.
Standing up for immigrant rights in the Trump era will require dedicated organizing and nonviolent protest. Recommended by Maria Elena Durazo, Carlos Saavedra, Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, and many more, the new book This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the 21st Century provides key tools for sparking and sustaining nonviolent resistance in troubling times.
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Carlos Saavedra, organizer with Cosecha and former National Coordinator of United We Dream, writes: “This book is the Rules for Radicals for a new generation. Mark and Paul Engler have written a defining work on the science of popular movements… A must-read for everyone fighting the battle for justice in this world.”
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, writes: “For all those who are tired of tinkering with the machine and believe that truly transformative change is required if we are ever going to build an inclusive, multi-racial, multi-ethnic democracy that truly values all of us (and yet wonder how in the world we might go about building a movement that could actually achieve the scale of change required), this book is for you.
“It’s a virtual tool box — a highly engaging introduction to many of the strategies, tactics and methodologies for nonviolent, revolutionary change that have been employed in the United States and around the world with surprising results. The greatest lie told to the American people today is that we really have no power to change things, that the most we can do is vote for the lesser evil and keep our chin up. Yet history teaches the opposite is true.”
Special offer: Mark and Paul Engler are making available signed copies of their new book for just $19. Proceeds from the sale will be used to support social movement trainings and public education about the power of organizing.
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Praise for the book:
Maria Elena Durazo, international union vice president for civil rights, diversity, and immigration at UNITE HERE!, writes: “This book tells the stories of the mass movements that have made our world and continue to change it, and it tells them with excitement, insight, and hope like few have told them before. Mark and Paul Engler’s invaluable book comes at a great time for all of us who want to know how the labor movement’s on-going work of building lasting change can draw inspiration from the explosive uprisings that have captured the public imagination. Reading this book, we can recognize that those storms aren’t freak events. They come from a method of organizing with powerful lessons and a moving history. This is important reading for our members, organizers, leaders, and allies.”
Bill McKibben, author and co-founder of 350.org, writes: “This is a landmark book… ‘Momentum-based organizing’ puts a name on something that many of us had dimly intuited. It’s a powerful method for making real change fast. And real change fast is in fact what our world requires.”
Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything writes: “Absorbing… Ambitious… Indispensable. A genuine gift to social movements everywhere.”
Erica Chenoweth, co-author of Why Civil Resistance Works, writes: “Mark and Paul Engler have compiled a true masterpiece on the history, logic, ethics, and power of nonviolent action…. Sure to inform and inspire for generations to come.”
Book description:
There is a craft to uprising—and this craft can change the world.
From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media consistently portrays them as being spontaneous and unpredictable. Yet, in this book, Mark and Paul Engler look at the hidden art behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest.
With incisive insights from contemporary activists, as well as fresh revelations about the work of groundbreaking figures such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Gene Sharp, and Frances Fox Piven, the Englers show how people with few resources and little conventional influence are engineering the upheavals that are reshaping contemporary politics.
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Special offer: You can order a signed copy of This Is An Uprising direct from the authors for more than 25% off the cover price! (All proceeds will benefit the Center for the Working Poor.)
A signed copy of the book makes for a perfect gift. The hardcover will be signed by one of the authors.
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