This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century

"Absorbing... Ambitious... Indispensable. A genuine gift to social movements everywhere." -Naomi Klein

Features a new Foreword by Bill McKibben and a Reading Group Guide

From protests to defend immigrant rights and combat climate change, to Occupy, #BlackLivesMatter, and the resistance to the Trump administration, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. In This Is an Uprising, Mark and Paul Engler look at the hidden art behind such outbursts of revolt, examining core principles that have sparked and guided 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 can harness the power of nonviolent movements to create lasting change.

• This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
• Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World
• Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything
• Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution
• Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change
• Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance
• Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals
• Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
• Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements
• Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World