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  • In Review: Ted Nace’s Climate Hope

    by Mark Engler September 29, 2010
    by Mark Engler September 29, 2010

    On the front lines in the fight against coal.

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  • Soul of a Citizen: A Review

    by Mark Engler July 1, 2010
    by Mark Engler July 1, 2010

    Paul Rogat Loeb’s well-regarded 1999 book on activism is out in a revised and updated edition.

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  • Reporting from Labor’s Borderlands

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2004
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2004

    A review of The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border.

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  • Hook, Line, and Suckers

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2005
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2005

    Barbara Ehrenreich moves up the class ladder.

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  • Revenge of the Combat Cartoonist

    by Mark Engler July 26, 2004
    by Mark Engler July 26, 2004

    A review of How to Succeed at Globalization: A Primer for the Roadside Vendor by El Fisgón.

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  • Schlosser’s Agenda

    by Mark Engler December 11, 2003
    by Mark Engler December 11, 2003

    A review of Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser.

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  • Love, Freedom, Empire

    by Mark Engler July 1, 2003
    by Mark Engler July 1, 2003

    A Review of Freedom Dreams by Robin D. G. Kelley

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  • The Sideshow Rebels

    by Mark Engler September 5, 2002
    by Mark Engler September 5, 2002

    A review of Sideshow, USA by Rachel Adams and Jay’s Journal of Anomalies by Ricky Jay.

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  • Whither a New Internationalism?

    by Mark Engler July 1, 2002
    by Mark Engler July 1, 2002

    A review of Upside Down by Eduardo Galeano.

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  • Introduction to “The Republicans”

    by Mark Engler June 16, 2006
    by Mark Engler June 16, 2006

    A book of photographs by Steve Simon.

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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 New Republic
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  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
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  • Rolling Stone
  • The Guardian
  • In These Times
  • TomDispatch
  • New Internationalist
  • Yes! Magazine
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Jacobin
  • Mother Jones
  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • Grist Magazine
  • Rebelión
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Progressive
  • Newsday
  • openDemocracy
  • Truthout
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
  • Progreso Semanal
  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
  • Baltimore Sun
  • The Ecologist
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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