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2018

  • When “America First” is a Corporate Scam

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2018
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2018

    Trump’s policy is a top-down nationalism for America’s rich, when what we need—both here and abroad—is an internationalism from below.

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  • There’s More Than One Way to Strike the Boss

    by Mark Engler June 27, 2018
    by Mark Engler June 27, 2018

    From fare strikes to sick outs, movements are deploying a variety of creative tactics to disrupt business as usual.

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  • How ‘No More Miss America’ Announced a Feminist Upheaval

    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler September 7, 2018
    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler September 7, 2018

    A bold and irreverent protest 50 years ago put a renewed women’s liberation movement on the public map—and offers important lessons for today’s resistance.

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  • Shutting Down Guns and Greed

    by Mark Engler May 29, 2018
    by Mark Engler May 29, 2018

    Two of the most important recent developments in US politics have come from social movements involving schools. Each has a different look and generational profile, but they are united in …

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  • The Obscenity of Extreme Wealth

    by Mark Engler February 1, 2018
    by Mark Engler February 1, 2018

    After a certain point, the rich have to be creative in inventing new material wants as any reasonable need has already been met.

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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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  • 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
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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
    • 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