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  • Occupy, the 99% Spring, and the New Age of Direct Action

    by Mark Engler April 24, 2012
    by Mark Engler April 24, 2012

    Collaboration or cooptation? Expansion or dilution? Mark Engler on what to make of the 99% Spring.

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  • A World Bank President Who’s Not a Crony or a War Criminal?

    by Mark Engler March 28, 2012
    by Mark Engler March 28, 2012

    Mark Engler talks to Mark Weisbrot about the nomination of former Partners in Health executive director Jim Yong Kim.

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  • Obama’s Broken Resolutions

    by Mark Engler March 2, 2012
    by Mark Engler March 2, 2012

    Don’t believe in the “enthusiasm gap”? Spend some time with the right-wing faithful. Then stop by a protest against Guantanamo.

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  • Guantanamo Has Got to Go

    by Mark Engler January 12, 2012
    by Mark Engler January 12, 2012

    Protesting Ten Years of Indefinite Detention

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  • Iowa: Republican for a Day

    by Mark Engler January 4, 2012
    by Mark Engler January 4, 2012

    The neighborly good cheer of the caucus I attended was almost enough to make me forget, at least for a few moments, that I was sitting four rows up in …

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  • A Moment to Celebrate

    by Mark Engler January 2, 2012
    by Mark Engler January 2, 2012

    Why the left should take the time to celebrate its victories.

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  • Iowa: The People’s Caucus

    by Mark Engler December 30, 2011
    by Mark Engler December 30, 2011

    As caucus craziness reaches its peak in Iowa, the Occupy movement has not been left out.

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  • Why America’s 99% Have Rebelled

    by Mark Engler December 23, 2011
    by Mark Engler December 23, 2011

    Those who have joined the #Occupy movement are drawing strength from shared experience. They are laying bare the failure of a system. And they are doing something to change it.

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  • The Indestructable Osprey

    by Mark Engler December 22, 2011
    by Mark Engler December 22, 2011

    Many agree that the V-22 Osprey is a major bust, so why does the government keep authorizing spending on it?

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  • Obama’s “Free Trade” Follies: A Conversation with Global Trade Watch’s Todd Tucker

    by Mark Engler November 29, 2011
    by Mark Engler November 29, 2011

    How “free trade” prevailed in the Obama White House.

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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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