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  • The Gulf at the Gas Station

    by Mark Engler August 12, 2010
    by Mark Engler August 12, 2010

    Why the market fails in calculating the true cost of our dependence on oil.

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  • The Last Porto Alegre

    by Mark Engler February 14, 2005
    by Mark Engler February 14, 2005

    Assessing the state of the World Social Forum after five years.

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  • Pranksters Fixing the World

    by Mark Engler October 21, 2009
    by Mark Engler October 21, 2009

    With a new film, the Yes Men carry forth their gonzo brand of anti-corporate activism.

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  • There Is an Alternative to Corporate Rule

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2008
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2008

    All over the world, truly democratic approaches are bubbling up from the grassroots.

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  • Fair Trade Sweatshops?

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2006
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2006

    Supporting ‘clean clothes’ campaigns to end the exploitative labour practices that pervade the textile industry is not as simple as just picking the ‘right’ brand to buy.

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  • From the Quarantine Against Greed

    by Mark Engler September 30, 2002
    by Mark Engler September 30, 2002

    A report from outside the 2002 annual meetings of the IMF/World Bank in Washington, D.C.

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  • The Right Way to Rewrite NAFTA

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2017

    What is an internationalist to make of Donald J Trump’s vow to blow up the North American Free Trade Agreement?

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  • Act Against Amazon!

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2015

    Society as a whole is bearing the true cost of the company’s misbehavior.

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  • Team Obama Cashes In

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2015

    It is cherished notion in American political ideology that the market and democracy go happily hand in hand. The purveyors of that myth keep the revolving door turning.

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  • The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Let’s Not Work Together

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2015

    Some ideological divides don’t deserve to be bridged.

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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
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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
  • 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
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    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002