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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.

  • Toward the “Rights of the Poor”

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2000
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2000

    A consideration of human rights in liberation theology, published in the Journal of Religious Ethics (Vol. 28, Issue 3).

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  • Shutting Down Guns and Greed

    by Mark Engler May 29, 2018
    by Mark Engler May 29, 2018

    Two of the most important recent developments in US politics have come from social movements involving schools. Each has a different look and generational profile, but they are united in …

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  • The Obscenity of Extreme Wealth

    by Mark Engler February 1, 2018
    by Mark Engler February 1, 2018

    After a certain point, the rich have to be creative in inventing new material wants as any reasonable need has already been met.

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  • Confronting a Culture of Sexual Violence

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2017

    To make this culture of sexual harassment a thing of the past requires organizing and mass mobilization.

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  • The Dangerous Dignity of War

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2017

    Why it only takes a bit of a bomb-dropping and sabre-rattling to rally the reporters and bestow a presidential aura on our leaders.

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  • Down with America’s Racist Monuments

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2017

    Taking down monuments to people who fought to defend slavery should not be controversial at all. Yet in the US today, it is.

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  • Donald Trump and the Politics of Impeachment

    by Mark Engler July 12, 2017
    by Mark Engler July 12, 2017

    We should not underestimate the US president’s talent for undermining his own job security.

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  • The Right Way to Rewrite NAFTA

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2017

    What is an internationalist to make of Donald J Trump’s vow to blow up the North American Free Trade Agreement?

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  • Boosting the Backlash Against Trump

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2017

    Progressives have to try to maximize the liberatory potential of a growing discontent.

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  • When Sanctuary is Resistance

    by Mark Engler April 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler April 1, 2017

    In the United States in the 1980s, the simple act of providing refuge became a form of civil disobedience. Three decades later, in the era of Trump, providing sanctuary may …

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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
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    • 2019-2020
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    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
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    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002