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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.

  • Memoirs from the “Architect of Black Power”

    by Mark Engler March 14, 2004
    by Mark Engler March 14, 2004

    A review of Ready for Revolution by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture).

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  • Contagious Defections

    by Mark Engler December 15, 2008
    by Mark Engler December 15, 2008

    How far will mainstream economics go in breaking with the increasingly discredited Washington Consensus?

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  • Hilda Solis: Protecting Workers, Not Corporations

    by Mark Engler February 25, 2010
    by Mark Engler February 25, 2010

    Amid the disappointments of Obama’s first year in office is one bright spot: a Department of Labor that stands up for workers’ rights.

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  • Heating Up Climate Action

    by Mark Engler January 10, 2010
    by Mark Engler January 10, 2010

    This fall is becoming a breakthrough season for the emerging social movement for climate justice.

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  • La Jugadora Más Valiosa del primer año de Obama: Hilda Solís

    by Mark Engler February 25, 2010
    by Mark Engler February 25, 2010

    La nueva Secretaria de Trabajo está haciendo justamente lo que debe hacer: defender los derechos de los trabajadores.

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  • Grading the Obama Administration on Trade: B

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

    Why the White House agenda is incomplete, and why that’s not all bad.

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  • El mundo no es plano

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2008
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2008

    Por qué Thomas Friedman está equivocado sobre la globalización

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  • Economía MLK

    by Mark Engler January 20, 2010
    by Mark Engler January 20, 2010

    Cómo pudo haber respondido el Dr. King a la actual crisis de recesión, desempleo y ejecución de hipotecas.

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  • A Utopia of Caring

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2009
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2009

    Rebecca Solnit explores how our responses to disasters can point the way to a better society. (A review of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in …

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  • Grading the Obama Administration on Honduras: D

    by Mark Engler January 20, 2010
    by Mark Engler January 20, 2010

    How the White House botched its response to the Honduran coup.

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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
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    • 2019-2020
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    • 2015-2016
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