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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.

  • Obama’s Legacy Falls Short on Organizing

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2017

    Technocratic liberals treat movement groups as another “special interest” rather than a central pillar upholding their ability to govern.

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  • Trump Can Be Beaten Because He Is the Establishment

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2017

    We must respond with a genuine vision for ending the corrupt politics of privilege.

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  • Why Targeting Corporate Democrats Is Part of the Fight Against Trump

    by Mark Engler December 9, 2016
    by Mark Engler December 9, 2016

    Lessons from the George W. Bush years.

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  • Acts of Conscience on a Bended Knee

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2016
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2016

    On a protest that spread far beyond a single sport.

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  • Protectors vs Pipelines

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2016
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2016

    The native-led resistance at Standing Rock has emphasized environmentalism of a different complexion than is typically associated with ecological activism in the United States.

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  • Kissinger Is Not Our Friend

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2016
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2016

    The former US Secretary of State endorsed human rights violations in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Argentina, yet Hillary Clinton calls him ‘a friend.’

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  • #VetsVsHate—and Trump

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2016
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2016

    ‘It’s part of a long and disturbing pattern of Donald Trump using veterans as a political prop, both for his own self-advantage and to advance an agenda of bigotry and …

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  • What’s Not for Sale in Branded America?

    by Mark Engler July 1, 2016
    by Mark Engler July 1, 2016

    Public spaces previously regarded as off-limits to private branding—schools, government buildings, and national parks—may soon display corporate logos in exchange for cash.

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  • The ‘Fight for $15’ Dreams Big—and Wins

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2016
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2016

    Stubborn and visionary got the goods.

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  • One Gas Leak Too Many

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2016
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2016

    Can we just stop fracking, already?

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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
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
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    • 1999-2002