Articles by Mark Engler
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How Movements Can Maintain Their Radical Vision while Winning Practical Reforms
Mark Engler and Paul Engler | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
12 Apr 2022 – Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
→ read full articleGandhi’s Strategy for Success — Use More Than One Strategy
Mark Engler and Paul Engler | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2017
How creating a healthy “ecology of change,” as Gandhi did in India, can help propel social movements.
→ read full articleWhat Makes Nonviolent Movements Explode?
Mark Engler and Paul Engler – Common Dreams,
15 Dec 2014
Why are some protests ignored and forgotten while others explode, dominating the news cycle for weeks and becoming touchstones in political life? For all of those seeking to promote change, this is a critical question. And it was a particularly pressing concern after the financial meltdown of 2008.
→ read full article(Italiano) Come fece Gandhi a vincere?
Mark Engler e Paul Engler – Centro Studi Sereno Regis,
20 Oct 2014
Nella prima mattinata del 12 marzo 1930 Gandhi, accompagnato da un gruppo addestrato di 78 seguaci del suo ashram, iniziò una marcia di più di 200 miglia verso il mare.
→ read full articleDid Nonviolence Fail in Egypt?
Mark Engler and Paul Engler – Foreign Policy In Focus,
10 Mar 2014
The Egyptian Revolution is a perfect case study for both the power and the limits of nonviolent mass movements.
→ read full articleHonduras: Our Continuing Catastrophe
Mark Engler – Dissent Magazine,
20 Feb 2012
Honduras has become a human rights disaster. The country now has the world’s highest murder rate. And impunity for political violence is the norm. For all this, the United States deserves a good deal of the blame. I was pleased to see the New York Times recently publish a hard-hitting op-ed by Dana Frank that makes this case.
→ read full articleWhy Egypt Ditched the IMF
Mark Engler – Yes! Magazine,
18 Jul 2011
As Egyptians continue their struggle for social justice and full democracy, there’s one institution they don’t want involved: the International Monetary Fund.
→ read full articleCASINO CAPITALISM AS USUAL
Mark Engler,
3 Oct 2009
Last week’s Group of 20 (G20) meeting in Pittsburgh brought together leaders from the most significant players in the global economy and charged them with renovating the financial system at the heart of the economic crisis. Change was on the agenda, and the heads of state claimed to deliver. As the summit concluded, The New […]
→ read full articleEMPIRE FORECLOSED?
Mark Engler,
21 Apr 2009
Not long ago, excitement over American imperialism reached levels not seen in a century. "People are coming out of the closet on the word ‘empire,’" the right-wing columnist Charles Krauthammer told The New York Times in early 2002. Neoconservatives were on the rise in Washington, and their leading propagandists were not shy in making the […]
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