Author: MassCommons

Impeachment is a political act, which means politicians need to make it happen. In 1974, as Jimmy Breslin tells the tale in his entertaining and insightful Watergate book, How The Good Guys Finally Won, that politician was House...

(One in a series of posts on Mark & Paul Engler’s 2016 book, This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping The Twenty-First Century.) It’s one thing to organize around symbolic demands and win symbolic...

(One in a series of posts on Mark & Paul Engler’s 2016 book, This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping The Twenty-First Century.) For organizers and leaders seeking large-scale, transformative change, a...

(One in a series of posts on Mark & Paul Engler’s 2016 book, This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping The Twenty-First Century.) When discussing the importance for momentum-driven organizing of swaying...

(One in a series of posts on Mark & Paul Engler’s 2016 book, This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping The Twenty-First Century.) “…(T)oday, the study of nonviolent conflict and civil resistance...