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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.

  • When Undocumented Activists Infiltrated ICE

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2020
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2020

    A conversation with directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera about their new film, The Infiltrators.

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  • The Seattle Protests Showed That Another World Is Possible

    by Mark Engler November 29, 2019
    by Mark Engler November 29, 2019

    Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today’s critics of neoliberal capitalism.

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  • Does It Make Sense to Protest a President Who Is Not Persuadable?

    by Mark Engler October 15, 2019
    by Mark Engler October 15, 2019

    Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.

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  • Reviving the General Strike

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2019
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2019

    Organizers in labor, immigrant rights, and climate movements seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.

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  • Lessons from the Pledge of Resistance

    by Mark Engler July 15, 2019
    by Mark Engler July 15, 2019

    Thirty-five years ago, Central American solidarity activists developed a model for building resistance before disaster strikes. Their efforts may have stopped a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.

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  • Remembering Pete Seeger: Patriot, Dissident, Internationalist

    by Mark Engler March 8, 2019
    by Mark Engler March 8, 2019

    If there is a vision of U.S. patriotism that is redeemable, it must surely draw on Seeger’s insistence that it encompass both ardent dissent and robust internationalism.

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  • Jeff Bezos Has Enough! It’s Time for a Maximum Wage.

    by Mark Engler December 14, 2018
    by Mark Engler December 14, 2018

    A Q&A with author Sam Pizzigati.

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  • There’s Still Power in a Strike

    by Mark Engler April 24, 2019
    by Mark Engler April 24, 2019

    Jeremy Brecher, author of the labor-history classic Strike!, considers the recent wave of teacher walkouts, how we can overcome America’s “strike drought,” and the future role of mass disobedience in …

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  • Making Housing a Human Right

    by Mark Engler August 6, 2018
    by Mark Engler August 6, 2018

    In cities such as New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, working people have been all but priced out, pushed into ever more distant fringes and suburbs.

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  • The Amazon Effect: Sweat, Surveillance, Exploitation

    by Mark Engler October 25, 2018
    by Mark Engler October 25, 2018

    Company founder Jeff Bezos did not become the world’s richest man by letting employees enjoy free-range lifestyles.

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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