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  • Lessons from the Pledge of Resistance

    by Mark Engler July 15, 2019
    by Mark Engler July 15, 2019

    Thirty-five years ago, Central American solidarity activists developed a model for building resistance before disaster strikes. Their efforts may have stopped a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.

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  • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 70% Tax Proposal Is a Great Start—But We Need to Abolish the Ultra-Rich

    by Mark Engler and Andrew Elrod January 18, 2019
    by Mark Engler and Andrew Elrod January 18, 2019

    Ultimately, finding an optimal tax rate for the super-wealthy is a moral and political issue as much as an economic one.

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  • Remembering Pete Seeger: Patriot, Dissident, Internationalist

    by Mark Engler March 8, 2019
    by Mark Engler March 8, 2019

    If there is a vision of U.S. patriotism that is redeemable, it must surely draw on Seeger’s insistence that it encompass both ardent dissent and robust internationalism.

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  • There’s Still Power in a Strike

    by Mark Engler April 24, 2019
    by Mark Engler April 24, 2019

    Jeremy Brecher, author of the labor-history classic Strike!, considers the recent wave of teacher walkouts, how we can overcome America’s “strike drought,” and the future role of mass disobedience in …

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The Author

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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Mark’s Articles Appear In:

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  • The Nation
  • The New Republic
  • N+1
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
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  • In These Times
  • TomDispatch
  • New Internationalist
  • Yes! Magazine
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Jacobin
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  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • Grist Magazine
  • Rebelión
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Progressive
  • Newsday
  • openDemocracy
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  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
  • Progreso Semanal
  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
  • Baltimore Sun
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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
    • 2023-2025
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
    • 2009-2010
    • 2007-2008
    • 2005-2006
    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002