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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.

  • The Return of Daniel Ortega (in Arabic)

    by Mark Engler November 10, 2006
    by Mark Engler November 10, 2006

    Despite Ortega’s many flaws, the return of the Sandinistas to power creates the possibility that his challenge to the “savage capitalism” of the previous regime can genuinely benefit Nicaragua’s poor. …

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  • Anti-Union Life at Target

    by Mark Engler June 22, 2011
    by Mark Engler June 22, 2011

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

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  • Palm Trees in the Snow

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2011
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2011

    There are no palm trees in Wisconsin. And public fiscal problems were not caused by union greed.

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  • Boycott Power and the Fall of Glenn Beck

    by Mark Engler June 29, 2011
    by Mark Engler June 29, 2011

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

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  • “Blowback” and “Baseworld”: Remembering Chalmers Johnson

    by Mark Engler December 2, 2010
    by Mark Engler December 2, 2010

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

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  • How Rich is Rich?

    by Mark Engler November 22, 2010
    by Mark Engler November 22, 2010

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

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  • La venganza del dibujante de combate

    by Mark Engler August 5, 2004
    by Mark Engler August 5, 2004

    Una crítica de “Cómo triunfar en la globalización” por El Fisgón.

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  • Frances Fox Piven: Cool Under Fire

    by Mark Engler January 24, 2011
    by Mark Engler January 24, 2011

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

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  • Obama’s Tax Cut Debacle: When Compromise is the Enemy of the Good

    by Mark Engler December 8, 2010
    by Mark Engler December 8, 2010

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

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  • John Lennon, Bono, and Belafonte: Lessons in Celebrity Activism

    by Mark Engler December 20, 2010
    by Mark Engler December 20, 2010

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

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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
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