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  • #ShellNo: The Triumph of the Kayaktivists

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2015

    Sometimes those who are creative and daring — those who paddle hard and bring enough friends — prevail in spite of cynics and detractors.

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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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  • A Pope in Washington

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2015

    If religious leaders have a constructive role to play in political life, it should be one of discomforting the powerful. In his finest moments, Pope Francis has taken this as …

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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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  • Hillary Clinton and the Vermonter Socialist

    by Mark Engler July 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler July 1, 2015

    Like it or not, presidential races are one of the few entry points into political discussion for a large number of Americans.

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  • Can the World Endure Another Bush—or Another Clinton?

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2015

    No doubt, the prospect of a Clinton-Bush rematch is distasteful. But the real problem goes deeper than any family name.

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  • Let’s Stop “Playing Indian”

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2015

    Across the U.S., the number of teams named the “Chiefs,” “Savages,” “Indians,” and “Braves” has declined dramatically, but America has yet to truly reckon with its oppression of the continent’s …

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  • Ending Corporate Rule

    by Mark Engler April 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler April 1, 2015

    Can we find a way to loosen big business’s stranglehold on the U.S.?

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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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  • #BlackLivesMatter: A Wave of Dissent

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2015
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2015

    If the country is to be redeemed, it will depend on those who dissent—those who are now using their bodies to blockade bridges and highways.

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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
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    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
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