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  • When the Pillars Fall — How Social Movements Can Win More Victories Like Same-Sex Marriage

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler July 9, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler July 9, 2014

    Where insider politics fails, a transformational approach can turn the impossible into the inevitable.

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  • From the Berlin Wall to today — Lessons for harnessing the moment of the whirlwind

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler November 7, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler November 7, 2014

    Every so often, we witness a period of mass insurgency that seems to defy the accepted rules of politics

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  • How did Gandhi win?

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler October 4, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler October 4, 2014

    Lessons from the Salt March for today’s social movements.

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  • Dramatizing Obama’s Climate Dilemma

    by Mark Engler August 26, 2011
    by Mark Engler August 26, 2011

    A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

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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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  • The Immigrant Rights Movement After Arizona

    by Mark Engler April 29, 2010
    by Mark Engler April 29, 2010

    A dispatch for the “Arguing the World” blog at Dissent magazine.

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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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  • 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
  • The Des Moines Register
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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