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  • Hijacked Organic, Limited Local, Faulty Fair Trade: What’s a Radical to Eat?

    by Mark Engler May 16, 2013
    by Mark Engler May 16, 2013

    On the politics of food.

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  • When Women Revolted

    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler January 18, 2017
    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler January 18, 2017

    A wave of disruptive protest fifty years ago helped put women’s liberation on the map—and showcased a radical feminist vision that remains relevant in the age of Trump.

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  • Should We Fight the System or Be the Change?

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler June 3, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler June 3, 2014

    The strengths and limitations of prefigurative politics.

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  • Immigration Economics: An Interview with Professor Giovanni Peri

    by Mark Engler September 16, 2010
    by Mark Engler September 16, 2010

    Doesn’t supply and demand dictate that new immigrants will steal jobs and drive down wages for U.S. citizens? A leading immigration economist explains why not.

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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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  • Gandhi’s Strategy for Success — Use More Than One Strategy

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler March 17, 2017
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler March 17, 2017

    How creating a healthy “ecology of change” can help propel social movements.

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  • Help Wanted—Female

    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler September 1, 2017
    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler September 1, 2017

    The sexist job ads of the 60s are gone, but female-dominated jobs are still vastly undervalued today.

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  • The World Is Not Flat

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2008
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2008

    How Thomas Friedman gets it wrong about globalization. An excerpt from How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books, 2008)

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  • Science Fiction From Below

    by Mark Engler May 8, 2009
    by Mark Engler May 8, 2009

    Alex Rivera, director of the new film Sleep Dealer, imagines the future of the Global South.

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  • Surviving the Ups and Downs of Social Movements

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler September 3, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler September 3, 2014

    Can theories of movement cycles equip activists to persevere over the long haul?

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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
    • 2023-2025
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
    • 2009-2010
    • 2007-2008
    • 2005-2006
    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002