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  • What Makes Nonviolent Movements Explode?

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler December 10, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler December 10, 2014

    Despite the demonstrated power of sacrifice and disruption, it is rare that groups risk either in significant measure — and even rarer that the two are combined in thoughtful and …

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  • People Power Brought Down the Berlin Wall—Can it Defeat Corporate Rule?

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2014

    Can people power also be successful in defeating the more diffuse evils of oligarchy and corporate rule?

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  • From the Berlin Wall to today — Lessons for harnessing the moment of the whirlwind

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler November 7, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler November 7, 2014

    Every so often, we witness a period of mass insurgency that seems to defy the accepted rules of politics

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  • After the Climate March

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2014

    Savvy organizers use mass actions as choice opportunities for recruiting.

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  • How did Gandhi win?

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler October 4, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler October 4, 2014

    Lessons from the Salt March for today’s social movements.

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  • How to Militarize Your Local Police

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2014

    The use of militarized police squadrons has long been an escalating and racially loaded trend.

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  • Why is College so Damned Expensive?

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2014

    With a grim job market and soaring debts, new graduates face the prospect of long-term indenture to the banks.

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  • Social Change is Written in the Streets

    by Mark Engler July 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler July 1, 2014

    Fifty years ago the Civil Rights Act was passed into law in the United States.

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  • What the U.S. Made of Thomas Picketty

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2014

    Reactions to a surprise best-seller on economic inequality.

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  • The Problem with Cadillac’s Electric Wheels

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2014
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2014

    While making cars more energy efficient is a worthy goal, it is not enough.

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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 Nation
  • The Guardian
  • N+1
  • The New Republic
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
  • The Atlantic
  • Rolling Stone
  • In These Times
  • Jacobin
  • TomDispatch
  • Convergence
  • The Forge
  • New Internationalist
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Mother Jones
  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • openDemocracy
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
  • Grist Magazine
  • Rebelión
  • Yes! Magazine
  • The Progressive
  • Newsday
  • Truthout
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
  • 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
    • 2023-2025
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
    • 2009-2010
    • 2007-2008
    • 2005-2006
    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002