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2011-2012

  • Ai-jen Poo: Organizing a Movement for Care

    by Mark Engler November 30, 2011
    by Mark Engler November 30, 2011

    Talk to Ai-jen Poo about her work and it won’t be long before you hear language you don’t often hear in the midst of intense social movement campaigning.

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  • War: The Wrong Jobs Program

    by Mark Engler November 17, 2011
    by Mark Engler November 17, 2011

    The real question is not whether the government should spend on job creation. It is whether the government has been spending well.

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  • It’s Time for a Union at Wal-Mart

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2012

    Of more than 4,500 “Supercenters” and other retail locations in North America, not one is home to a unionized workforce.

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  • After the Election: Time to Stop Settling for the Lesser Evil

    by Mark Engler November 9, 2012
    by Mark Engler November 9, 2012

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

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  • How Not to Make Every Vote Count

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2012

    Recognizing the limits of voting should not prevent us from appreciating the seriousness of an aggressive conservative campaign against the franchise.

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  • Will Occupy Live to See Another Birthday?

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012

    On the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, #S17, our U.S. columnist says the 99 per cent could sorely use another round of rebellion.

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  • Obama: A Better Adversary

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012

    Progressive movements are stronger when they can take on centrists or liberals than when pitted against elected conservatives.

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  • Wall Street Wants Your Gratitude

    by Mark Engler August 28, 2012
    by Mark Engler August 28, 2012

    Amid economic downturn, there is growth in at least one sector: The shamelessness of the global financial elite.

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  • Return Your Eagle Scout Badge

    by Mark Engler August 6, 2012
    by Mark Engler August 6, 2012

    Are you disgusted and outraged by the recent decision of the Boy Scouts of America to reaffirm its exclusion of gay members from the organization? You’re not alone.

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  • Student Debt Crisis: It’s Time for a Jubilee

    by Mark Engler July 30, 2012
    by Mark Engler July 30, 2012

    Organizations that usually demand cancellation of debts owed by impoverished countries are now calling for debt forgiveness for a different group of borrowers: U.S. students.

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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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Democracy Uprising
  • About
    • About Mark Engler
    • About Democracy Uprising
  • Books
    • This Is An Uprising
    • How To Rule the World
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