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  • The Robber Barons of Social Change

    by Mark Engler and Arthur Phillips February 25, 2010
    by Mark Engler and Arthur Phillips February 25, 2010

    Should advocates of progressive transformation adopt market values and business know-how? (A review of Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World by Michael Edwards.)

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  • Hilda Solis: Protecting Workers, Not Corporations

    by Mark Engler February 25, 2010
    by Mark Engler February 25, 2010

    Amid the disappointments of Obama’s first year in office is one bright spot: a Department of Labor that stands up for workers’ rights.

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  • Heating Up Climate Action

    by Mark Engler January 10, 2010
    by Mark Engler January 10, 2010

    This fall is becoming a breakthrough season for the emerging social movement for climate justice.

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  • Grading the Obama Administration on Trade: B

    by Mark Engler January 15, 2010
    by Mark Engler January 15, 2010

    Why the White House agenda is incomplete, and why that’s not all bad.

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  • A Utopia of Caring

    by Mark Engler November 1, 2009
    by Mark Engler November 1, 2009

    Rebecca Solnit explores how our responses to disasters can point the way to a better society. (A review of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in …

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  • Grading the Obama Administration on Honduras: D

    by Mark Engler January 20, 2010
    by Mark Engler January 20, 2010

    How the White House botched its response to the Honduran coup.

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  • Casino Capitalism as Usual

    by Mark Engler September 30, 2009
    by Mark Engler September 30, 2009

    G20 leaves needed reforms for global economy off the table.

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  • Debating Obama and American Power

    by FPIF Senior Analysts March 26, 2009
    by FPIF Senior Analysts March 26, 2009

    A Foreign Policy In Focus roundtable.

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  • The Catholic Worker Movement: A Definition

    by Mark Engler April 1, 2007
    by Mark Engler April 1, 2007

    An entry for the Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice.

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  • Will the Winds of Change Reach El Salvador?

    by Mark Engler March 2, 2009
    by Mark Engler March 2, 2009

    The prospect of progressive leadership coming to power in El Salvador’s March 15 presidential elections should prompt new U.S. policy toward Central America.

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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
    • 2023-2025
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
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