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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.

  • George Takei’s Social Media Activism

    by Mark Engler April 2, 2013
    by Mark Engler April 2, 2013

    The actor’s distinctive combination of politics and meme silliness is a pleasure worth indulging.

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  • A Nobel Prize for Drone Strikes?: Obama’s War on Terror

    by Mark Engler April 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler April 1, 2013

    Are you between age 16 and 60 in a part of the global South targeted by the Pentagon? Until proven innocent, you’re counted as a combatant if hit.

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  • The Pope and the Poor

    by Mark Engler March 15, 2013
    by Mark Engler March 15, 2013

    On the divided reaction to the announcement of Pope Francis I.

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  • ¿Adoptará el nuevo papa la teología de la liberación?

    by Mark Engler March 13, 2013
    by Mark Engler March 13, 2013

    La “opción preferencial por los pobres”, la idea antes radical de que Dios se alinea e identifica con los oprimidos y empobrecidos, ha sido convertida en corriente dominante como doctrina …

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  • Will the Next Pope Embrace Liberation Theology?

    by Mark Engler March 4, 2013
    by Mark Engler March 4, 2013

    The “preferential option for the poor,” the once-radical idea that God identifies with the oppressed and impoverished, has been mainstreamed as Catholic theological doctrine.

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  • How Many Gun Massacres More?

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2013

    A radical proposal would go well beyond controlling the most aggressive semi-automatic rifles and curbing arms sales to the world’s worst dictatorships. It would also demand a change in our …

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  • The Real “Farmer” Story: So God Made High-Fructose Corn Syrup

    by Mark Engler February 11, 2013
    by Mark Engler February 11, 2013

    The Dodge Superbowl ad celebrates a type of farming that corporate agribusiness has all but obliterated in the past fifty years.

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  • Boy Scouts Set to Cave on Gay Rights

    by Mark Engler January 31, 2013
    by Mark Engler January 31, 2013

    Accepting change became the less painful option for Boy Scout leaders. And the result is a small but significant stride toward justice.

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  • A Nation of Immigrants Speaks

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2013

    With 7 out of 10 Latinos voting to re-elect Barack Obama, Republicans are debating whether to alter their hardline immigration stance.

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  • It’s Time for a Union at Wal-Mart

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2012

    Of more than 4,500 “Supercenters” and other retail locations in North America, not one is home to a unionized workforce.

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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