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  • Obama’s “Free Trade” Voyages: NAFTA Across the Oceans

    by Mark Engler July 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler July 1, 2013

    When it comes to the devastating affects of pro-corporate deals, Obama was right the first time.

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  • Provoking an American Climate Crisis

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2013

    The signs tell us that a climate crisis has arrived in the natural world. The question is: When will this translate into a crisis in the political world?

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  • A Nobel Prize for Drone Strikes?: Obama’s War on Terror

    by Mark Engler April 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler April 1, 2013

    Are you between age 16 and 60 in a part of the global South targeted by the Pentagon? Until proven innocent, you’re counted as a combatant if hit.

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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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  • Will the Next Pope Embrace Liberation Theology?

    by Mark Engler March 4, 2013
    by Mark Engler March 4, 2013

    The “preferential option for the poor,” the once-radical idea that God identifies with the oppressed and impoverished, has been mainstreamed as Catholic theological doctrine.

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  • How Many Gun Massacres More?

    by Mark Engler March 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler March 1, 2013

    A radical proposal would go well beyond controlling the most aggressive semi-automatic rifles and curbing arms sales to the world’s worst dictatorships. It would also demand a change in our …

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  • The Real “Farmer” Story: So God Made High-Fructose Corn Syrup

    by Mark Engler February 11, 2013
    by Mark Engler February 11, 2013

    The Dodge Superbowl ad celebrates a type of farming that corporate agribusiness has all but obliterated in the past fifty years.

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  • A Nation of Immigrants Speaks

    by Mark Engler January 1, 2013
    by Mark Engler January 1, 2013

    With 7 out of 10 Latinos voting to re-elect Barack Obama, Republicans are debating whether to alter their hardline immigration stance.

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  • It’s Time for a Union at Wal-Mart

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2012

    Of more than 4,500 “Supercenters” and other retail locations in North America, not one is home to a unionized workforce.

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  • How Not to Make Every Vote Count

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2012

    Recognizing the limits of voting should not prevent us from appreciating the seriousness of an aggressive conservative campaign against the franchise.

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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
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