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Mark Engler and Paul Engler

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

Mark Engler and Paul Engler are co-directors of the Whirlwind Institute, a social change strategy center, and authors of This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century (Nation Books).

  • Is Trump co-governing with the billionaire class?

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler June 25, 2025
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler June 25, 2025

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

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  • Could we be entering a ‘movement moment’ against Trump?

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler April 10, 2025
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler April 10, 2025

    How to recognize the characteristics that make for powerful whirlwinds of protest against injustice and tyranny.

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  • Trump’s backpedaling shows he’s not invincible

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler March 19, 2025
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler March 19, 2025

    To compel Trump to reverse course, our job is to highlight political missteps, heighten public outrage and raise the political cost of implementing his radical agenda. 

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  • It’s going to take multiple strategies to win under Trump 2.0

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler January 31, 2025
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler January 31, 2025

    Social movement ecology can help groups with different organizing traditions work together to pursue change in a time of hostile government.

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  • A new wave of movements against Trumpism is coming

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler November 9, 2024
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler November 9, 2024

    Our job is to translate outrage over his agenda into action toward a truly transformational vision.

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  • How to make sure your disruptive protest helps your cause

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler August 9, 2024
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler August 9, 2024

    Five key factors determine whether controversial protests are more likely to spark backlash or create positive outcomes.

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  • Why protests work, even when not everybody likes them

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler July 10, 2024
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler July 10, 2024

    Organizers must learn to embrace the polarizing nature of protest in order to use it effectively.

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  • Harold Washington’s lessons for taking on a political machine

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler February 21, 2024
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler February 21, 2024

    A new documentary explains how, 40 years ago, Chicago’s first black mayor shattered status-quo politics in his city, offering insights that remain relevant for grassroots movements today.

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  • Strategy is a Craft

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler January 24, 2024
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler January 24, 2024

    A conversation with Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce about their new book, Practical Radicals, and the need for the left to embrace a rigorous, multi-pronged strategy for change.

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  • Think #MeToo didn’t make a real difference? Think again

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler November 28, 2023
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler November 28, 2023

    It takes effort to track the impacts of mass mobilizations like #MeToo, Occupy or Black Lives Matter, but understanding social change is impossible without such work.

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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 New Republic
  • N+1
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
  • The Atlantic
  • Rolling Stone
  • The Guardian
  • In These Times
  • TomDispatch
  • New Internationalist
  • Yes! Magazine
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Jacobin
  • Mother Jones
  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • Grist Magazine
  • Rebelión
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Progressive
  • Newsday
  • openDemocracy
  • Truthout
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
  • Progreso Semanal
  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
  • Baltimore Sun
  • The Ecologist
  • TruthDig
  • Asia Times
  • 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
    • 2023-2025
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
    • 2009-2010
    • 2007-2008
    • 2005-2006
    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002