Mark Engler

Mark Engler is a writer based in Philadelphia and an editorial board member at Dissent. He is co-author of a new book on the craft of mass mobilization, This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century. He can be reached via the website www.thisisanuprising.org.

FilmMay 1, 2020

When Undocumented Activists Infiltrated ICE

A conversation with directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera about their film, The Infiltrators.

Mark Engler
Racism and DiscriminationJanuary 17, 2020

It’s Time We Celebrate Ella Baker Day

Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

Mark Engler
ActivismNovember 29, 2019

The Seattle Protests Showed Another World Is Possible

Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today’s critics of neoliberal capitalism.

Mark Engler
October 15, 2019

Why Bother Protesting When the President Doesn’t Care?

Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to demonstration—but he was actually obsessed.

Mark Engler
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September 1, 2019

Reviving the General Strike

Organizers seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.

Mark Engler
HistoryJuly 15, 2019

How Do We Build Resistance Before Disaster Strikes?

Thirty-five years ago, organizers devised a new way to fight injustice before our government enacts a horrific policy: a pledge of resistance.

Mark Engler
September 7, 2018

How ‘No More Miss America’ Announced a Feminist Upheaval

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.

Laura Tanenbaum and Mark Engler
August 16, 2018

The World of Eduardo Galeano

The writer's radical commitments made him an intimate witness to many of the major turning points in Latin American politics over the last 75 years.

Mark Engler
ActivismMarch 7, 2016

Three Times When ‘Impractical’ Movements Led to Real Change

Against all odds, the world broke open. Could it happen again in 2016?

Mark Engler and Paul Engler
ActivismNovember 11, 2014

History Didn’t Bring Down the Berlin Wall—Activists Did

Mass uprisings like the one that brought down the Soviet bloc are neither as rare—nor as spontaneous—as they first appear.

Mark Engler , Paul Engler and Foreign Policy In Focus

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Mark Engler

FilmMay 1, 2020

A conversation with directors Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera about their film, The Infiltrators.

Racism and DiscriminationJanuary 17, 2020

Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

ActivismNovember 29, 2019

Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today’s critics of neoliberal capitalism.

October 15, 2019

Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to demonstration—but he was actually obsessed.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

September 1, 2019

Organizers seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.

HistoryJuly 15, 2019

Thirty-five years ago, organizers devised a new way to fight injustice before our government enacts a horrific policy: a pledge of resistance.

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.

August 16, 2018

The writer's radical commitments made him an intimate witness to many of the major turning points in Latin American politics over the last 75 years.

ActivismMarch 7, 2016

Against all odds, the world broke open. Could it happen again in 2016?

ActivismNovember 11, 2014

Mass uprisings like the one that brought down the Soviet bloc are neither as rare—nor as spontaneous—as they first appear.