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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.

  • Dramatizing Obama’s Climate Dilemma

    by Mark Engler August 26, 2011
    by Mark Engler August 26, 2011

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

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  • Is “Free Trade” Obama’s Jobs Plan?

    by Mark Engler September 2, 2011
    by Mark Engler September 2, 2011

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

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  • Ten Years After 9/11, Time to End Perpetual War

    by Mark Engler September 14, 2011
    by Mark Engler September 14, 2011

    Should the “War on Terror” come to an end?

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  • Five Things That #OccupyWallStreet Has Done Right

    by Mark Engler September 29, 2011
    by Mark Engler September 29, 2011

    They were predicted to be a flash in the pan. So why are the anti-Wall Street occupations growing?

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  • The Legacy of “Anti-Globalization”

    by Mark Engler September 19, 2011
    by Mark Engler September 19, 2011

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

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  • How #OccupyWallStreet Is Evolving and Gaining Power

    by Mark Engler October 5, 2011
    by Mark Engler October 5, 2011

    How the anti-corporate protests have evolved into the populist force now sweeping the nation.

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  • The Future of the #Occupy Movement: Solidarity and Escalation

    by Mark Engler October 21, 2011
    by Mark Engler October 21, 2011

    The movement can propel significant changes. But #OccupyWallStreet and its allied occupations still have a ways to go before realizing their potential.

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  • ¿Son los pobres el problema?

    by Mark Engler October 9, 2003
    by Mark Engler October 9, 2003

    El proyecto de ley de reautorización de la asistencia social, cuyos campeones son ahora los conservadores en el Senado, tiene a los pobres como objetivo, pero no derrotará la pobreza.

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  • U.S. Military Spending Marches On

    by Mark Engler February 28, 2011
    by Mark Engler February 28, 2011

    How on earth do you get a bipartisan consensus against cuts and for stimulus? Call it the defense budget.

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  • Cultivando los Everglades

    by Mark Engler December 4, 2003
    by Mark Engler December 4, 2003

    De cómo los cultivadores de caña de la Florida amasaron su fortuna abusando de los trabajadores agrícolas inmigrantes, ordeñando a los contribuyentes norteamericanos y destruyendo los humedales en peligro.

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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