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  • A Green-Donkey Government

    by Mark Engler November 3, 2000
    by Mark Engler November 3, 2000

    Lessons from parliamentary politics.

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  • The People’s Conventions

    by Mark Engler September 6, 2000
    by Mark Engler September 6, 2000

    In-Depth Analysis of the Protests at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.

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  • The Real Populism is in the Streets

    by Mark Engler August 28, 2000
    by Mark Engler August 28, 2000

    An op-ed from the Democratic National Convention.

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  • Liberation Theology and the Battle for Human Rights in El Salvador (1975-1999)

    by Mark Engler April 30, 1999
    by Mark Engler April 30, 1999

    An academic article on the evolving human rights discourse during the country’s civil war.

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  • 2006: A Global Justice Year in Review

    by Mark Engler December 22, 2006
    by Mark Engler December 22, 2006

    The past 12 months brought some promising developments on the globalization front.

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  • Slowing the ‘Free Trade’ Bulldozer

    by Mark Engler November 30, 2006
    by Mark Engler November 30, 2006

    Positive signs that a new Democratic Congress is breaking with the corporate globalization agenda.

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  • The Return of Daniel Ortega

    by Mark Engler November 7, 2006
    by Mark Engler November 7, 2006

    Despite Ortega’s many flaws, the return of the Sandinistas to power creates the possibility that his challenge to the “savage capitalism” of the previous regime can genuinely benefit Nicaragua’s poor.

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  • World Bank: Calling Bad Business Good

    by Mark Engler September 30, 2006
    by Mark Engler September 30, 2006

    The World Bank should get a failing grade for its rankings of countries that violate workers’ rights.

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  • WTO: Best Left For Dead?

    by Mark Engler August 8, 2006
    by Mark Engler August 8, 2006

    The collapse of talks at the World Trade Organization is a victory for the global justice movement, but also presents new challenges.

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  • Mel Gibson’s True Passion

    by Francis Engler and Mark Engler August 3, 2006
    by Francis Engler and Mark Engler August 3, 2006

    Gibson’s vulgar, anti-Semitic rant upon his arrest for drunk driving should prompt reexamination of The Passion of the Christ.

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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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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
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