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Social Movements

  • With Harvard Sit-In Victory, A Movement Continues

    by Mark Engler May 11, 2001
    by Mark Engler May 11, 2001

    After twenty-one days, living wage activists have emerged victorious. Here’s why their sit-in not only shook the campus, but signaled an important win for progressives across the country who are …

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  • Conflict in Quebec

    by Mark Engler April 24, 2001
    by Mark Engler April 24, 2001

    Eyewitness Report and Analysis from the FTAA protests in Quebec City.

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  • Teamsters and Turtles Unite Again

    by Mark Engler April 17, 2001
    by Mark Engler April 17, 2001

    Why Quebec City will witness the Labor movement’s return to globalization activism.

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  • The Inauguration and Its Discontents

    by Mark Engler January 18, 2001
    by Mark Engler January 18, 2001

    A Protest Against the Odds.

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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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  • 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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  • The Impact of the “Battle In Seattle”

    by Mark Engler September 29, 2008
    by Mark Engler September 29, 2008

    The 1999 protests against the WTO were dramatic enough to inspire a new feature film, but did they actually make a difference?

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  • Defining the Anti-Globalization Movement

    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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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
    • 2023-2025
    • 2021-2022
    • 2019-2020
    • 2017-2018
    • 2015-2016
    • 2013-2014
    • 2011-2012
    • 2009-2010
    • 2007-2008
    • 2005-2006
    • 2003-2004
    • 1999-2002