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2017

  • Naming Our Desire: How Do We Talk About Socialism in America?

    by Mark Engler December 20, 2017
    by Mark Engler December 20, 2017

    The millennial embrace of socialism has allowed a new generation to draw inspiration from a long legacy of struggle.

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  • How ACT UP Fought Back

    by Mark Engler September 26, 2017
    by Mark Engler September 26, 2017

    Lessons from the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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  • When Women Revolted

    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler January 18, 2017
    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler January 18, 2017

    A wave of disruptive protest fifty years ago helped put women’s liberation on the map—and showcased a radical feminist vision that remains relevant in the age of Trump.

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  • Gandhi’s Strategy for Success — Use More Than One Strategy

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler March 17, 2017
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler March 17, 2017

    How creating a healthy “ecology of change” can help propel social movements.

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  • Help Wanted—Female

    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler September 1, 2017
    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler September 1, 2017

    The sexist job ads of the 60s are gone, but female-dominated jobs are still vastly undervalued today.

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  • Confronting a Culture of Sexual Violence

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2017

    To make this culture of sexual harassment a thing of the past requires organizing and mass mobilization.

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  • The Dangerous Dignity of War

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2017

    Why it only takes a bit of a bomb-dropping and sabre-rattling to rally the reporters and bestow a presidential aura on our leaders.

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  • Down with America’s Racist Monuments

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2017

    Taking down monuments to people who fought to defend slavery should not be controversial at all. Yet in the US today, it is.

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  • Donald Trump and the Politics of Impeachment

    by Mark Engler July 12, 2017
    by Mark Engler July 12, 2017

    We should not underestimate the US president’s talent for undermining his own job security.

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  • The Right Way to Rewrite NAFTA

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2017

    What is an internationalist to make of Donald J Trump’s vow to blow up the North American Free Trade Agreement?

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Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia, an editorial board member at Dissent, and co-director of the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center. His latest book, written with Paul Engler, is This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-first Century (Nation Books). Mark’s full bio is available here.

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  • N+1
  • The New Republic
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
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  • Convergence
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  • New Internationalist
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  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • openDemocracy
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
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  • Yes! Magazine
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  • Christian Science Monitor
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  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
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Democracy Uprising
  • About
    • About Mark Engler
    • About Democracy Uprising
  • Books
    • This Is An Uprising
    • How To Rule the World
  • Topics
  • Translations
  • Appearances
  • Archive
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