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  • Help Wanted—Female

    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler September 1, 2017
    by Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler September 1, 2017

    The sexist job ads of the 60s are gone, but female-dominated jobs are still vastly undervalued today.

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  • MLK Economics

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

    How Dr. King might have responded to current crises of recession, unemployment, and foreclosure.

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  • Ordinary Outrages

    by Mark Engler April 24, 2002
    by Mark Engler April 24, 2002

    A review of Political Fictions by Joan Didion.

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  • Reverend Billy’s Holiday Shopocalypse

    by Mark Engler December 2, 2005
    by Mark Engler December 2, 2005

    The Church of Stop Shopping hits the road.

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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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  • The Obscenity of Extreme Wealth

    by Mark Engler February 1, 2018
    by Mark Engler February 1, 2018

    After a certain point, the rich have to be creative in inventing new material wants as any reasonable need has already been met.

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  • Confronting a Culture of Sexual Violence

    by Mark Engler December 1, 2017
    by Mark Engler December 1, 2017

    To make this culture of sexual harassment a thing of the past requires organizing and mass mobilization.

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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
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    • 2019-2020
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