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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.

  • Ending Corporate Rule

    by Mark Engler April 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler April 1, 2015

    Can we find a way to loosen big business’s stranglehold on the U.S.?

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  • The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Let’s Not Work Together

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2015

    Some ideological divides don’t deserve to be bridged.

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  • #BlackLivesMatter: A Wave of Dissent

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2015

    If the country is to be redeemed, it will depend on those who dissent—those who are now using their bodies to blockade bridges and highways.

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  • People Power Brought Down the Berlin Wall—Can it Defeat Corporate Rule?

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2014

    Can people power also be successful in defeating the more diffuse evils of oligarchy and corporate rule?

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  • After the Climate March

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2014

    Savvy organizers use mass actions as choice opportunities for recruiting.

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  • How to Militarize Your Local Police

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2014

    The use of militarized police squadrons has long been an escalating and racially loaded trend.

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  • Why is College so Damned Expensive?

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2014

    With a grim job market and soaring debts, new graduates face the prospect of long-term indenture to the banks.

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  • Social Change is Written in the Streets

    by Mark Engler July 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler July 1, 2014

    Fifty years ago the Civil Rights Act was passed into law in the United States.

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  • What the U.S. Made of Thomas Picketty

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2014

    Reactions to a surprise best-seller on economic inequality.

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  • The Problem with Cadillac’s Electric Wheels

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2014

    While making cars more energy efficient is a worthy goal, it is not enough.

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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