(TEANECK, NJ) -- Author and journalist Mark Engler discusses his new book This is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty-first Century, written with Paul Engler, on Saturday, February 27 at 8:00pm. The event takes place at The Puffin Cultural Forum in Teaneck.
From movements around climate change to Occupy, Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, recent history has seen no shortage of uprisings. Mass media often depicts these movements as spontaneous acts of rebellion, but in This is an Uprising, Mark and Paul Engler investigates the movements’ behind-the-scenes strategies, mechanics, and effectiveness. A reexamination of the work of Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., and activist groups ACT UP and the Weathermen, help place contemporary unrest in a larger context of social movements. This is an Uprising is both a historical review of social transformation and a handbook for those interested in activism today.
This event is the first in a new Puffin Cultural Forum series of talks and presentations by authors from The Nation Institute. Each event features an author lecture followed by a Q&A session and book signing.
Open to the public, $10 Suggested Donation. Reservations are recommended and can be made by phone, 201-836-3499, or email, tix@puffinfoundation.org. The Puffin Cultural Forum is at 20 Puffin Way (off Teaneck Rd.) in Teaneck. For more information visit, www.puffinculturalforum.org.
MARK ENGLER: is an author and journalist based in Philadelphia. He is an editorial board member at Dissent, a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine, and a senior analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus, a network of foreign policy experts. Engler writes a monthly column for the Oxford-based magazine New Internationalist. His writing has appeared in such publications as The Nation, Salon, Rolling Stone, Audubon, The Progressive, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Newsday, Mother Jones, and The Christian Science Monitor. Engler is also author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle over the Global Economy, published in 2008 by Nation Books.
The Puffin Cultural Forum is a project of the Puffin Foundation, Ltd. which, through the arts, encourages dialog about issues important to the community. The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. underwrites this and all other Puffin Cultural Forum events and programs in order to make it possible for everyone to attend.
