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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.

  • Climate Disobedience

    by Mark Engler August 11, 2009
    by Mark Engler August 11, 2009

    Deciding the time has come for direct action to stop global warming.

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  • The Ascent of Niall Ferguson

    by Mark Engler March 17, 2009
    by Mark Engler March 17, 2009

    In his new “financial history of the world” a historian famous for celebrating empire turns to praise the wonders of capital.

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  • MLK Economics

    by Mark Engler January 15, 2010
    by Mark Engler January 15, 2010

    How Dr. King might have responded to current crises of recession, unemployment, and foreclosure.

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  • Ordinary Outrages

    by Mark Engler April 24, 2002
    by Mark Engler April 24, 2002

    A review of Political Fictions by Joan Didion.

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  • On the Price is Right

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2001
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2001

    A journey into Television City.

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  • The Last Porto Alegre

    by Mark Engler February 14, 2005
    by Mark Engler February 14, 2005

    Assessing the state of the World Social Forum after five years.

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  • No Better Place

    by Mark Engler February 28, 2005
    by Mark Engler February 28, 2005

    The fiction of Wendell Berry.

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  • Pranksters Fixing the World

    by Mark Engler October 21, 2009
    by Mark Engler October 21, 2009

    With a new film, the Yes Men carry forth their gonzo brand of anti-corporate activism.

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  • There Is an Alternative to Corporate Rule

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2008
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2008

    All over the world, truly democratic approaches are bubbling up from the grassroots.

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  • Fair Trade Sweatshops?

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2006
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2006

    Supporting ‘clean clothes’ campaigns to end the exploitative labour practices that pervade the textile industry is not as simple as just picking the ‘right’ brand to buy.

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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