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2011-2012

  • Working in the iPad Empire

    by Mark Engler April 30, 2012
    by Mark Engler April 30, 2012

    The death of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs, a fresh wave of investigative reports, and protests by Chinese workers themselves have reopened discussion of a reality we regularly prefer …

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  • ALEC Retreats, the Right Wing Freaks

    by Mark Engler April 27, 2012
    by Mark Engler April 27, 2012

    Customers should be able to know if companies that they are supporting with their purchases are busy spending money on groups that bolster the right-wing legislative vanguard.

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  • Occupy, the 99% Spring, and the New Age of Direct Action

    by Mark Engler April 24, 2012
    by Mark Engler April 24, 2012

    Collaboration or cooptation? Expansion or dilution? Mark Engler on what to make of the 99% Spring.

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  • Tax Day Doesn’t Belong to the Tea Party Anymore

    by Mark Engler April 16, 2012
    by Mark Engler April 16, 2012

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

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  • ALEC Annoyed at Losing Sponsors? It Breaks My Heart

    by Mark Engler April 13, 2012
    by Mark Engler April 13, 2012

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

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  • A World Bank President Who’s Not a Crony or a War Criminal?

    by Mark Engler March 28, 2012
    by Mark Engler March 28, 2012

    Mark Engler talks to Mark Weisbrot about the nomination of former Partners in Health executive director Jim Yong Kim.

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  • The Apple Retraction

    by Mark Engler March 19, 2012
    by Mark Engler March 19, 2012

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

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  • Joe Nocera Is Wrong About Environmental Activism

    by Mark Engler March 7, 2012
    by Mark Engler March 7, 2012

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

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  • Obama’s Broken Resolutions

    by Mark Engler March 2, 2012
    by Mark Engler March 2, 2012

    Don’t believe in the “enthusiasm gap”? Spend some time with the right-wing faithful. Then stop by a protest against Guantanamo.

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  • Bye Bye Trade Jobs with Korea

    by Mark Engler March 2, 2012
    by Mark Engler March 2, 2012

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

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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
  • Topics
  • Translations
  • Appearances
  • Archive
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