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Social Movements

  • Let’s end corruption – starting with Wall Street

    by Mark Engler November 15, 2011
    by Mark Engler November 15, 2011

    As the #OccupyWallStreet protests continue to grow, bankers must be held to account for their ill-gotten gains.

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  • Five Things That #OccupyWallStreet Has Done Right

    by Mark Engler September 29, 2011
    by Mark Engler September 29, 2011

    They were predicted to be a flash in the pan. So why are the anti-Wall Street occupations growing?

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  • How #OccupyWallStreet Is Evolving and Gaining Power

    by Mark Engler October 5, 2011
    by Mark Engler October 5, 2011

    How the anti-corporate protests have evolved into the populist force now sweeping the nation.

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  • Soul of a Citizen: A Review

    by Mark Engler July 1, 2010
    by Mark Engler July 1, 2010

    Paul Rogat Loeb’s well-regarded 1999 book on activism is out in a revised and updated edition.

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  • Miami’s Trade Troubles

    by Mark Engler November 24, 2003
    by Mark Engler November 24, 2003

    Contrary to the Bush Administration’s spin, the Free Trade Area of the Americas met defeat in militarized Miami.

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  • Global Showdown in Evian

    by Mark Engler May 29, 2003
    by Mark Engler May 29, 2003

    The real voices of international concern at the G8 summit will be coming from the streets.

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  • New York Against the War

    by Mark Engler February 19, 2003
    by Mark Engler February 19, 2003

    With Congress seemingly locked into war, democracy demands dissent. The protest in New York delivered.

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  • From “Anti-Globalization” to a World of Possibilities

    by Mark Engler January 27, 2003
    by Mark Engler January 27, 2003

    Three years after the 1999 Seattle protests, a maturing social movement defies its negative label.

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  • Marching for a Global Peace

    by Mark Engler April 22, 2002
    by Mark Engler April 22, 2002

    Militaristic responses may be simpler than multi-issue protests, but they cannot make the world a safer place.

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  • The Politics of Persistence

    by Mark Engler February 1, 2002
    by Mark Engler February 1, 2002

    To answer the question “Are ‘anti-globalization’ protests destined for irrelevance in a political landscape transformed by September 11?” we must ask, “Why were they relevant in the first place?”

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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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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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