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2011-2012

  • Five Things That #OccupyWallStreet Has Done Right

    by Mark Engler September 29, 2011
    by Mark Engler September 29, 2011

    They were predicted to be a flash in the pan. So why are the anti-Wall Street occupations growing?

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  • The Legacy of “Anti-Globalization”

    by Mark Engler September 19, 2011
    by Mark Engler September 19, 2011

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

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  • How #OccupyWallStreet Is Evolving and Gaining Power

    by Mark Engler October 5, 2011
    by Mark Engler October 5, 2011

    How the anti-corporate protests have evolved into the populist force now sweeping the nation.

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  • The Future of the #Occupy Movement: Solidarity and Escalation

    by Mark Engler October 21, 2011
    by Mark Engler October 21, 2011

    The movement can propel significant changes. But #OccupyWallStreet and its allied occupations still have a ways to go before realizing their potential.

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  • U.S. Military Spending Marches On

    by Mark Engler February 28, 2011
    by Mark Engler February 28, 2011

    How on earth do you get a bipartisan consensus against cuts and for stimulus? Call it the defense budget.

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  • Organizing the Egyptian Rebellion

    by Mark Engler February 9, 2011
    by Mark Engler February 9, 2011

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

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  • Wisconsin Shows Failure of Democrats to Back Pro-Labor Reforms

    by Mark Engler February 28, 2011
    by Mark Engler February 28, 2011

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

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  • The Wisconsin Uprising

    by Mark Engler February 18, 2011
    by Mark Engler February 18, 2011

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

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  • Stimulus Should Be Looking Pretty Good Right About Now

    by Mark Engler March 9, 2011
    by Mark Engler March 9, 2011

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

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  • The Hole in America’s Middle

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2011
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2011

    The unshakable notion that everyone in the country is middle class has helped push us ever closer to a society where nobody is.

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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
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    • This Is An Uprising
    • How To Rule the World
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