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  • Amnistia Ahora!

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2003
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2003

    The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride revives the U.S. immigration debate.

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  • Ride Toward Freedom

    by Mark Engler September 23, 2003
    by Mark Engler September 23, 2003

    More than championing a set of just immigration reforms, the activists on the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride are shaping the future of American progressivism.

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  • Building Labor Internationalism

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2002
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2002

    From the realignments at the top of the AFL-CIO hierarchy to the immigrant-driven campaigns at the base of the movement, commitment to internationalist struggle provides a key measure of U.S. …

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  • Immigrant Rights Are Workers’ Rights

    by Mark Engler August 28, 2002
    by Mark Engler August 28, 2002

    A Labor Day Commentary.

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  • With Harvard Sit-In Victory, A Movement Continues

    by Mark Engler May 11, 2001
    by Mark Engler May 11, 2001

    After twenty-one days, living wage activists have emerged victorious. Here’s why their sit-in not only shook the campus, but signaled an important win for progressives across the country who are …

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  • Teamsters and Turtles Unite Again

    by Mark Engler April 17, 2001
    by Mark Engler April 17, 2001

    Why Quebec City will witness the Labor movement’s return to globalization activism.

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  • The Birth of The Burning Bush

    by Paul Engler May 30, 2006
    by Paul Engler May 30, 2006

    How the Center for the Working Poor began.

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  • Taking Back Your Time

    by Mark Engler October 23, 2003
    by Mark Engler October 23, 2003

    Come October 24, if our country’s workload were on par with the rest of the industrialized world, you would have the rest of the year off.

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  • Hilda Solis: Protecting Workers, Not Corporations

    by Mark Engler February 25, 2010
    by Mark Engler February 25, 2010

    Amid the disappointments of Obama’s first year in office is one bright spot: a Department of Labor that stands up for workers’ rights.

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  • Progressive Good Tidings of 2007

    by Mark Engler December 22, 2007
    by Mark Engler December 22, 2007

    Along with political challenges, the past year offered some hopeful advances—many of which came just in last few weeks.

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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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  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
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  • In These Times
  • TomDispatch
  • New Internationalist
  • Yes! Magazine
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  • Le Monde diplomatique
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  • Rebelión
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  • 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
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    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
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