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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).

  • ガンジーはどのように勝利したのか? (Japanese)

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler October 8, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler October 8, 2014

    Lessons from the Salt March for today’s social movements.

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  • Als Martin Luther King seine Feuerwaffen aufgab

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler January 15, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler January 15, 2014

    Published in Lebenshaus. Nur wenige wissen, dass Martin Luther King, Jr. einmal eine Genehmigung zum Tragen einer versteckten Handfeuerwaffe beantragt hat. Der Juraprofessor Adam Winkler von der UCLA (University of …

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  • Can Frances Fox Piven’s Theory of Disruptive Power Create the Next Occupy?

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler May 7, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler May 7, 2014

    Reconsidering Poor People’s Movements in the wake of mass uprising.

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  • Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Disruptor Not a Peacemaker

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler April 7, 2016
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler April 7, 2016

    Like those of Black Lives Matter activists today, King’s methods were widely criticized—even when they were effective.

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  • When the Pillars Fall — How Social Movements Can Win More Victories Like Same-Sex Marriage

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler July 9, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler July 9, 2014

    Where insider politics fails, a transformational approach can turn the impossible into the inevitable.

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  • Should We Fight the System or Be the Change?

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler June 3, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler June 3, 2014

    The strengths and limitations of prefigurative politics.

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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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  • Surviving the Ups and Downs of Social Movements

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler September 3, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler September 3, 2014

    Can theories of movement cycles equip activists to persevere over the long haul?

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  • Four Ways of Looking at an Aztec Eagle

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler June 1, 2010
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler June 1, 2010

    The contested legacy of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.

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  • 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.

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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
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  • Sierra Magazine
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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