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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.

  • Joe Nocera Is Wrong About Environmental Activism

    by Mark Engler March 7, 2012
    by Mark Engler March 7, 2012

    A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

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  • Obama’s Broken Resolutions

    by Mark Engler March 2, 2012
    by Mark Engler March 2, 2012

    Don’t believe in the “enthusiasm gap”? Spend some time with the right-wing faithful. Then stop by a protest against Guantanamo.

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  • Bye Bye Trade Jobs with Korea

    by Mark Engler March 2, 2012
    by Mark Engler March 2, 2012

    A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

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  • Why the $60,000 Per Year Housekeeper Is a Right-Wing Nightmare

    by Mark Engler February 22, 2012
    by Mark Engler February 22, 2012

    A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

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  • Honduras: Our Continuing Catastrophe

    by Mark Engler February 15, 2012
    by Mark Engler February 15, 2012

    A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

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  • Apple’s iEconomy is a Labor Dystopia

    by Mark Engler February 3, 2012
    by Mark Engler February 3, 2012

    A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

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  • Thomas Friedman Wants to Take Away the Weekend

    by Mark Engler January 27, 2012
    by Mark Engler January 27, 2012

    A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

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  • Guantanamo Has Got to Go

    by Mark Engler January 12, 2012
    by Mark Engler January 12, 2012

    Protesting Ten Years of Indefinite Detention

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  • Iowa: Republican for a Day

    by Mark Engler January 4, 2012
    by Mark Engler January 4, 2012

    The neighborly good cheer of the caucus I attended was almost enough to make me forget, at least for a few moments, that I was sitting four rows up in …

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  • A Moment to Celebrate

    by Mark Engler January 2, 2012
    by Mark Engler January 2, 2012

    Why the left should take the time to celebrate its victories.

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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