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  • Will Occupy Live to See Another Birthday?

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012

    On the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, #S17, our U.S. columnist says the 99 per cent could sorely use another round of rebellion.

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  • Obama: A Better Adversary

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012

    Progressive movements are stronger when they can take on centrists or liberals than when pitted against elected conservatives.

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  • Return Your Eagle Scout Badge

    by Mark Engler August 6, 2012
    by Mark Engler August 6, 2012

    Are you disgusted and outraged by the recent decision of the Boy Scouts of America to reaffirm its exclusion of gay members from the organization? You’re not alone.

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  • Student Debt Crisis: It’s Time for a Jubilee

    by Mark Engler July 30, 2012
    by Mark Engler July 30, 2012

    Organizations that usually demand cancellation of debts owed by impoverished countries are now calling for debt forgiveness for a different group of borrowers: U.S. students.

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  • Tired of Burying Black Boys

    by Mark Engler June 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler June 1, 2012

    The Trayvon Martin case is not rooted in an individual’s bigotry, nor will the issues it raises be resolved by a single trial.

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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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  • 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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  • 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 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:

  • Dissent
  • The Nation
  • The New Republic
  • N+1
  • Salon.com
  • The Los Angeles Times
  • Waging Nonviolence
  • Boston Review
  • The Atlantic
  • Rolling Stone
  • The Guardian
  • In These Times
  • TomDispatch
  • New Internationalist
  • Yes! Magazine
  • Audubon Magazine
  • Jacobin
  • Mother Jones
  • Le Monde diplomatique
  • Grist Magazine
  • Rebelión
  • The San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Progressive
  • Newsday
  • openDemocracy
  • Truthout
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Dollars & Sense
  • Progreso Semanal
  • Chicago Reader
  • Sin Permiso
  • Baltimore Sun
  • The Ecologist
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  • Asia Times
  • Sierra Magazine
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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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