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2013-2014

  • How did Gandhi win?

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler October 4, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler October 4, 2014

    Lessons from the Salt March for today’s social movements.

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  • How to Militarize Your Local Police

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2014

    The use of militarized police squadrons has long been an escalating and racially loaded trend.

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  • Why is College so Damned Expensive?

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2014

    With a grim job market and soaring debts, new graduates face the prospect of long-term indenture to the banks.

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  • Social Change is Written in the Streets

    by Mark Engler July 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler July 1, 2014

    Fifty years ago the Civil Rights Act was passed into law in the United States.

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  • What the U.S. Made of Thomas Picketty

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2014

    Reactions to a surprise best-seller on economic inequality.

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  • The Problem with Cadillac’s Electric Wheels

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2014

    While making cars more energy efficient is a worthy goal, it is not enough.

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  • Art Is Politics: Revisiting Paul Simon’s Graceland

    by Mark Engler April 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler April 1, 2014

    Five stars for entertainment, one for politics.

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  • The Winter of the Climate Denier

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2014

    The North American Climate-Change Denier is an invasive species that poses serious risk to other plant and animal life on the planet.

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  • Did Nonviolence Fail in Egypt?

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler February 21, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler February 21, 2014

    Three years after the resignation of Mubarak, the Egyptian Revolution provides a perfect example of what mass, disruptive protest can accomplish—and what it can’t.

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  • When Martin Luther King Gave Up His Guns

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler January 15, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler January 15, 2014

    It took years of political evolution for King to understand nonviolence not merely as a moral force, but as an effective strategy for leveraging political change.

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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
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