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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #100: How Uprisings Happen, with Mark Engler
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What’s the difference between a protest and a movement, between a tactic and a vision? How do agitators harness the spontaneity of a sudden political clash, while still maintaining discipline and control during mass mobilizations? In This Is an Uprising, Mark and Paul Engler, veteran activists and ch...