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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.

  • Debt Cancellation: Historic Victories, New Challenges

    by Mark Engler May 19, 2005
    by Mark Engler May 19, 2005

    How 100% debt cancellation for poor countries—now being debated by wealthy nations—was transformed from an implausible demand into a winning issue, and what barriers lie ahead for the debt relief …

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  • CAFTA Deserves a Quiet Death

    by Mark Engler June 20, 2005
    by Mark Engler June 20, 2005

    The White House’s failure to push forward its latest “free trade” deal is a victory for working people throughout the Americas.

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  • Credit Globalization Movement for Debt Victory

    by Mark Engler June 16, 2005
    by Mark Engler June 16, 2005

    Ten years of pressure led to change of wealthy nations’ position.

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  • Where’s The Jubilee?

    by Mark Engler June 28, 2005
    by Mark Engler June 28, 2005

    The G8 debt deal should provide an opportunity for us to claim our victories while still pushing for more.

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  • The Anti-War Moment

    by Mark Engler September 23, 2005
    by Mark Engler September 23, 2005

    With polls turning and Congress restless, timing is ripe for a return of organized resistance to the war in Iraq.

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  • Hook, Line, and Suckers

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2005
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2005

    Barbara Ehrenreich moves up the class ladder.

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  • Truth Versus Superpower

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2006
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2006

    Defying the Bush Administration’s neoconservative worldview, El Salvador’s historic Truth Commission Report has once again become a living document.

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  • How Costly Is Too Costly?

    by Mark Engler February 23, 2006
    by Mark Engler February 23, 2006

    Finding the tipping point for Vietnam—and for Iraq.

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  • CAFTA’s Corpse, Revived

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2006
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2006

    New disputes are calling into question what the Central American Free Trade Agreement will look like in practice.

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  • Latin America Unchained

    by Mark Engler March 16, 2006
    by Mark Engler March 16, 2006

    Will the U.S. lose its influence over countries that have paid off their IMF loans?

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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