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  • Six Essays About War and About Peace

    by Mark Engler May 6, 2004
    by Mark Engler May 6, 2004

    A series of post-9/11 reflections.

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  • From the Quarantine Against Greed

    by Mark Engler September 30, 2002
    by Mark Engler September 30, 2002

    A report from outside the 2002 annual meetings of the IMF/World Bank in Washington, D.C.

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  • Republicans Among Us

    by Mark Engler September 3, 2004
    by Mark Engler September 3, 2004

    A week in review from the Republican National Convention, inside and out.

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  • New York Says “No”

    by Mark Engler August 28, 2004
    by Mark Engler August 28, 2004

    Why the city will—and should—demonstrate against the Republican Convention.

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  • How ‘No More Miss America’ Announced a Feminist Upheaval

    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler September 7, 2018
    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler September 7, 2018

    A bold and irreverent protest 50 years ago put a renewed women’s liberation movement on the public map—and offers important lessons for today’s resistance.

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  • Shutting Down Guns and Greed

    by Mark Engler May 29, 2018
    by Mark Engler May 29, 2018

    Two of the most important recent developments in US politics have come from social movements involving schools. Each has a different look and generational profile, but they are united in …

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  • Down with America’s Racist Monuments

    by Mark Engler October 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler October 1, 2017

    Taking down monuments to people who fought to defend slavery should not be controversial at all. Yet in the US today, it is.

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  • Boosting the Backlash Against Trump

    by Mark Engler May 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler May 1, 2017

    Progressives have to try to maximize the liberatory potential of a growing discontent.

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  • When Sanctuary is Resistance

    by Mark Engler April 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler April 1, 2017

    In the United States in the 1980s, the simple act of providing refuge became a form of civil disobedience. Three decades later, in the era of Trump, providing sanctuary may …

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  • Why Targeting Corporate Democrats Is Part of the Fight Against Trump

    by Mark Engler December 9, 2016
    by Mark Engler December 9, 2016

    Lessons from the George W. Bush years.

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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
  • TruthDig
  • Asia Times
  • Sierra Magazine
  • Labor Notes
  • New Politics
  • The Catholic Worker
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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