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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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  • What Makes Nonviolent Movements Explode?

    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler December 10, 2014
    by Mark Engler and Paul Engler December 10, 2014

    Despite the demonstrated power of sacrifice and disruption, it is rare that groups risk either in significant measure — and even rarer that the two are combined in thoughtful and …

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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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  • Boy Scouts Set to Cave on Gay Rights

    by Mark Engler January 31, 2013
    by Mark Engler January 31, 2013

    Accepting change became the less painful option for Boy Scout leaders. And the result is a small but significant stride toward justice.

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  • Will Occupy Live to See Another Birthday?

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012

    On the anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, #S17, our U.S. columnist says the 99 per cent could sorely use another round of rebellion.

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  • Obama: A Better Adversary

    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012
    by Mark Engler September 1, 2012

    Progressive movements are stronger when they can take on centrists or liberals than when pitted against elected conservatives.

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  • Quebec’s Student Revolt Goes Viral

    by Mark Engler May 29, 2012
    by Mark Engler May 29, 2012

    It took some 100 days of massive, concerted protest before the student strike in Québec finally started getting traction in the U.S. media.

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  • Tax Day Doesn’t Belong to the Tea Party Anymore

    by Mark Engler April 16, 2012
    by Mark Engler April 16, 2012

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

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  • Occupy the Pulpit

    by Mark Engler November 14, 2011
    by Mark Engler November 14, 2011

    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
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Democracy Uprising
  • About
    • About Mark Engler
    • About Democracy Uprising
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    • This Is An Uprising
    • How To Rule the World
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