Dispatches from the Whirlwind

Minneapolis Has Shown Us the Power of Mass Non-Cooperation

“The field of civil resistance provides an antidote to the fatal shortage of vision that pervades our political class.”

Feb 16 • Mark Engler and Paul Engler

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Tenth Anniversary Edition of This Is An Uprising now available!

We are excited to announce the release of a new and expanded edition of our book on the power of mass mobilization.

Feb 4 • Mark Engler and Paul Engler

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January 2026

Minnesota Is in Revolt Against Tyranny

A first-person account of living through a movement whirlwind.

Jan 21 • Mark Engler and Paul Engler

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Celebrating King, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, and the Art of Organizing

The MLK Day holiday also provides an occasion to hold up some of the other great leaders of the civil rights movement.

Jan 16 • Matthew Miles Goodrich

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From No Kings to the World’s Poorest President, Highlander’s Hillbilly Radical to Japan’s Marxist Innovator – A Year of Protest and Writing

Here at the Whirlwind Institute, we are looking forward to an exciting 2026 with the launch of several new projects.

Jan 7 • Paul Engler and Mark Engler

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December 2025

Learning from Myles Horton’s legendary career in social movements

The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.

Dec 17, 2025 • Mark Engler

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November 2025

What social movements can learn from the ‘innovator’s dilemma’

Considering how we can encourage new and creative strategies for making change.

Nov 18, 2025 • Paul Engler

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October 2025

The Radical Legacy of the “Poorest President in the World”

Whirlwind Institute senior research associate Guille Bervejillo examines what we can learn from the life of Uruguay’s former president Pepe Mujica.

Oct 20, 2025 • Mark Engler and Paul Engler

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September 2025

Using a “Maximum Wage” to Combat Billionaire Power

Whirlwind Institute analyst Celeste Pepitone-Nahas looks at steps toward capping executive pay.

Sep 26, 2025 • Mark Engler and Paul Engler

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June 2025

Is Trump co-governing with the billionaire class?

Politicians regularly partner with business, when they should collaborate with grassroots movements.

Jun 27, 2025 • Mark Engler and Paul Engler

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Trump Is Inspiring a Historic Wave of Protests

There's no need to wait for resistance. It is happening now.

Jun 20, 2025 • Mark Engler

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Trump's Manufactured Crisis and the Urgency of Strategic Nonviolence

The challenge for movements now is not just to oppose Trump’s naked power grab, but to refuse to play the role he’s cast us in.

Jun 14, 2025

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