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  • How movements can maintain their radical vision while winning practical reforms

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler May 10, 2022
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler May 10, 2022

    Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.

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  • The Pan American

    by Mark Engler August 13, 2018
    by Mark Engler August 13, 2018

    The world of Eduardo Galeano.

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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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  • The Children of Intervention

    by Mark Engler September 17, 2018
    by Mark Engler September 17, 2018

    Many of the root causes of immigration from Latin America are connected with U.S. intervention abroad.

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  • Against Shithole Nationalism

    by Mark Engler April 27, 2018
    by Mark Engler April 27, 2018

    When it comes to defeating Trump’s bigoted and ignorant foreign policy, we are not up against an anomaly. We’re up against a history.

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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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  • Kissinger Is Not Our Friend

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2016
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2016

    The former US Secretary of State endorsed human rights violations in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Argentina, yet Hillary Clinton calls him ‘a friend.’

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  • Even If You Have Nothing to Hide

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2013

    Story after story, fueled by leaks from former security contractor Edward Snowden, is uncovering a U.S. surveillance empire with unprecedented reach and breadth.

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  • End Illegal Spying; Don’t Shoot the Whistleblower

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2013

    Rather than facing unpleasant facts about runaway surveillance programs, lawmakers have preferred to kill the proverbial messenger.

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  • The Pope and the Poor

    by Mark Engler March 15, 2013
    by Mark Engler March 15, 2013

    On the divided reaction to the announcement of Pope Francis I.

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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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  • Boston Review
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  • In These Times
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  • openDemocracy
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  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
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  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
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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
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