Democracy Uprising
  • About
    • About Mark Engler
    • About Democracy Uprising
  • Books
    • This Is An Uprising
    • How To Rule the World
  • Topics
  • Translations
  • Appearances
  • Archive
    • 2025-2026
    • 2023-2024
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
    • 2009-2010
    • 2007-2008
    • 2005-2006
    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002
Yearly Archives

2017

  • Boosting the Backlash Against Trump

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2017

    Progressives have to try to maximize the liberatory potential of a growing discontent.

    Read more
    FacebookTwitterEmail
  • La strategia di Gandhi per il successo – usare più di una strategia

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler April 21, 2017
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler April 21, 2017

    Creare una sana ecologia del cambiamento può spingere i movimenti sociali.

    Read more
    FacebookTwitterEmail
  • When Sanctuary is Resistance

    by Mark Engler April 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler April 1, 2017

    In the United States in the 1980s, the simple act of providing refuge became a form of civil disobedience. Three decades later, in the era of Trump, providing sanctuary may …

    Read more
    FacebookTwitterEmail
  • Obama’s Legacy Falls Short on Organizing

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2017

    Technocratic liberals treat movement groups as another “special interest” rather than a central pillar upholding their ability to govern.

    Read more
    FacebookTwitterEmail
  • Trump Can Be Beaten Because He Is the Establishment

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2017

    We must respond with a genuine vision for ending the corrupt politics of privilege.

    Read more
    FacebookTwitterEmail
Load More Posts

Subscribe

Sign up to receive new articles and essays by email via our Substack newsletter, "Dispatches from the Whirlwind":

The Author

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.

On Facebook

On Facebook

Mark’s Articles Appear In:

  • Dissent
  • The Nation
  • The Guardian
  • N+1
  • The New Republic
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
  • The Atlantic
  • Rolling Stone
  • In These Times
  • Jacobin
  • TomDispatch
  • Convergence
  • The Forge
  • New Internationalist
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Mother Jones
  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • openDemocracy
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
  • Grist Magazine
  • Rebelión
  • Yes! Magazine
  • The Progressive
  • Newsday
  • Truthout
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
  • Baltimore Sun
  • The Ecologist
  • TruthDig
  • Sierra Magazine
  • Labor Notes
  • New Politics
  • The Catholic Worker
  • The Des Moines Register
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email

Back To Top
Democracy Uprising
  • About
    • About Mark Engler
    • About Democracy Uprising
  • Books
    • This Is An Uprising
    • How To Rule the World
  • Topics
  • Translations
  • Appearances
  • Archive
    • 2025-2026
    • 2023-2024
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
    • 2009-2010
    • 2007-2008
    • 2005-2006
    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002