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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 Children of Intervention

    by Mark Engler September 17, 2018
    by Mark Engler September 17, 2018

    Many of the root causes of immigration from Latin America are connected with U.S. intervention abroad.

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  • In Praise of White House Dysfunction

    by Mark Engler June 6, 2018
    by Mark Engler June 6, 2018

    As it turns out, Donald Trump is not very good at running the U.S. government. The question is: should we be sad about this?

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  • Against Shithole Nationalism

    by Mark Engler April 27, 2018
    by Mark Engler April 27, 2018

    When it comes to defeating Trump’s bigoted and ignorant foreign policy, we are not up against an anomaly. We’re up against a history.

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  • How ACT UP Fought Back

    by Mark Engler September 26, 2017
    by Mark Engler September 26, 2017

    Lessons from the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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  • When “America First” is a Corporate Scam

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2018
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2018

    Trump’s policy is a top-down nationalism for America’s rich, when what we need—both here and abroad—is an internationalism from below.

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  • The Godfather of Microcredit

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2009
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2009

    Is Muhammad Yunus selling ”free market” neoliberalism in the guise of liberal do-gooderism?

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  • There’s More Than One Way to Strike the Boss

    by Mark Engler June 27, 2018
    by Mark Engler June 27, 2018

    From fare strikes to sick outs, movements are deploying a variety of creative tactics to disrupt business as usual.

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  • Capitalism as Catastrophe

    by Mark Engler March 31, 2008
    by Mark Engler March 31, 2008

    Does Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine hold water?

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  • Ai-jen Poo: Organizing a Movement for Care

    by Mark Engler November 30, 2011
    by Mark Engler November 30, 2011

    Talk to Ai-jen Poo about her work and it won’t be long before you hear language you don’t often hear in the midst of intense social movement campaigning.

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  • La révolution non-violente a-t-elle échoué en Egypte?

    by Mark Engler February 21, 2014
    by Mark Engler February 21, 2014

    Published in Conflits Sans Violence. Le 11 février 2011, le président égyptien, Hosni Moubarak démissionnait suite à un mouvement puissant contre son régime dictatorial. Cette date marquait le point culminant …

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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