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Mark Engler

Mark Engler

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. He can be reached via the website http://www.DemocracyUprising.com.

  • Learning from Myles Horton’s legendary career in social movements

    by Mark Engler December 12, 2025
    by Mark Engler December 12, 2025

    The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.

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  • Trump Is Inspiring a Historic Wave of Protests

    by Mark Engler June 20, 2025
    by Mark Engler June 20, 2025

    There is no need to wait for resistance. It is happening now.

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  • Frances Fox Piven on Polarization as a Tool for Social Change

    by Mark Engler May 5, 2021
    by Mark Engler May 5, 2021

    The great theorist of disruptive power explains the concept of “dissensus” and how social movements prod elected officials into action by taking controversial stands.

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  • Pan Amerikan Eduardo Galeano’nun Dünyası (Turkish)

    by Mark Engler August 13, 2018
    by Mark Engler August 13, 2018

    Uruguaylı yazar Eduardo Galeano, hayatta en az bir defa bir hayat kurtarmış olmalıdır.

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  • 泛美洲人 爱德华多·加莱亚诺的世界 (Chinese)

    by Mark Engler August 13, 2018
    by Mark Engler August 13, 2018

    王立秋,云南弥勒人,北京大学国际关系学院比较政治学博士,现为哈尔滨工程大学人文社会科学学院讲师.

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  • Mass Protests May Fade, But Movements Persist

    by Mark Engler July 5, 2020
    by Mark Engler July 5, 2020

    Smart organizing during whirlwind moments seeds the ground for new waves of action in the future.

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  • The Pan American

    by Mark Engler August 13, 2018
    by Mark Engler August 13, 2018

    The world of Eduardo Galeano.

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  • 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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  • Latest Book: This Is An Uprising! (10th Anniversary Edition)

    by Mark Engler January 27, 2026
    by Mark Engler January 27, 2026

    Now available from Nation Books.

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  • It’s Time We Celebrate Ella Baker Day

    by Mark Engler January 17, 2020
    by Mark Engler January 17, 2020

    Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

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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
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  • Asia Times
  • 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