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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.

  • More To Be Done On Debt Relief

    by Mark Engler March 30, 2006
    by Mark Engler March 30, 2006

    If you think the third world debt crisis was solved at the meetings of G8 leaders last summer, think again.

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  • Politicizing U.S. Aid

    by Mark Engler March 21, 2006
    by Mark Engler March 21, 2006

    Under Bush’s new Director of Foreign Assistance, Randall Tobias, U.S. foreign assistance will be more overtly political than ever. Can progressives in good conscience demand increased aid?

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  • Vacation: The Key To Economic Recovery?

    by Mark Engler May 28, 2010
    by Mark Engler May 28, 2010

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

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  • Where’s The Jubilee? (in Arabic)

    by Mark Engler June 29, 2005
    by Mark Engler June 29, 2005

    The G8 debt deal should provide an opportunity for us to claim our victories while still pushing for more. (Translation into Arabic by Kefaya.org)

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  • Is Market Access the Answer to Poverty?

    by Mark Engler December 14, 2005
    by Mark Engler December 14, 2005

    While lavish agricultural subsidies illustrate wealthy countries’ hypocritical stance on “free trade,” ending them would be no panacea for human development.

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  • War Crimes, USA

    by Mark Engler December 8, 2005
    by Mark Engler December 8, 2005

    Could administration officials be called to account? An interview with Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, and Brendan Smith, editors of In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and …

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  • Crimes in Freedom’s Name

    by Mark Engler October 8, 2004
    by Mark Engler October 8, 2004

    Dick Cheney’s El Salvador.

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  • Revenge of the Combat Cartoonist

    by Mark Engler July 26, 2004
    by Mark Engler July 26, 2004

    A review of How to Succeed at Globalization: A Primer for the Roadside Vendor by El Fisgón.

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  • The Arkansas Run-Off and Bill Clinton’s “Free Trade” Apologetics

    by Mark Engler June 7, 2010
    by Mark Engler June 7, 2010

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

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  • The End of Gap Sweatshops?

    by Mark Engler June 29, 2004
    by Mark Engler June 29, 2004

    Victories and challenges for the anti-sweatshop movement.

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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