Another nice example of how to do a protest with style, courtesy of the fabulous boys and girls of SF Pride at Work:
Here’s a little more about SF Pride at Work:
San Francisco Pride at Work is an organization of queers for economic and social justice. We are the LGBTQ arm of the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Activism'
SF Pride at Work Not Gaga over Wells Fargo [OWS, the Musical]
January 13th, 2012 · Comments Off
Tags: Activism · Finance · Unions
Radical Algebra and Ella Baker-Style Organizing
January 8th, 2012 · Comments Off
After hearing a talk by civil rights veteran Robert Moses about the possibility of transforming the DC school system using a similar style of community organizing to the one he and other SNCC members used in the Mississippi Delta, I’ve been reading a book he cowrote, Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the [...]
Tags: Activism · Movement Perspective · Organizational Development · Poverty · Race
Rinku Sen on Occupying Wall Street And Movement Building
October 21st, 2011 · Comments Off
Organizing guru and President of the Applied Research Center Rinke Sen has an interesting take on the differences and relationship between long-term progressive organizations and a movement like Occupy Wall Street:
I have spent hours, weeks, months in discussions about how to recognize a movement—and whether anything we’ve done on all the issues you’ve [...]
Tags: Activism · Movement Perspective
What Do We Want? $1.6 Billion a Year from the CME & CBOE! When Do We Want It? Now!
October 10th, 2011 · Comments Off
If you aren’t just fired up about how quickly Occupy Wall Street is taking off and you’re still worried about the lack of specific, winnable demands, 2 suggestions:
1) Borrow a teddy bear and hug it out.
2) If that doesn’t work, check out Investing in Chicago Communities: A Jobs Fund for a Future That Works. This [...]
Tags: Activism · Finance · Good Jobs · Government
“Occupy the Hood”
October 10th, 2011 · Comments Off
Another good sign for Occupy Wall Street’s future: a new group called “Occupy the Hood.”
Founded by Malik Rhasaan, 39 of Queens, N.Y., and Ife Johari Uhuru, 35, based in Detroit, @OccupyTheHood has close to 3,500 followers on Twitter, the growing support of notable figures and a cadre of volunteers devoted to getting the word [...]
Tags: Activism · Finance · Movement Perspective · Race
Doug Henwood, Stephen Lerner, and Me on Occupy Wall Street
October 4th, 2011 · Comments Off
When Occupy Wall Street started, my first reaction was an uncharitable “meh.” Not publicly – I don’t publicly criticize fledgling organizing unless I think it’s actively doing harm. But the whole scene felt like the bad old days, when I was involved in in the dysfunctional, ultimately self-destructive parts of [...]
Tags: Activism · Finance · Movement Perspective
Silver Lining for Enviros in Bad Budget News?
August 8th, 2011 · Comments Off
What will the deficit-cutting mania mean for the environment? In a sick, twisted way, says Jeff Goodell, it might be good news:
environmental and clean energy activists have no choice now but to reevaluate their strategy now the federal government is being strangled to death…
As Joe Romm of the Center for American Progress [...]
Tags: Activism · Green Economy
Have Conservatives Overplayed Their Hand? Not Unless We Play Ours Right
May 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off
On the Series-O-Tubes-o-Spheres and in conversations with some friends, I’ve been hearing the same theme – the Right has overplayed their hand. From Scott Walker’s Wisconsin crusade to wipe out public unions to the House Republicans jumping off the cliff by signing up to privitalize/gut Medicare ala Ryan, conservatives are pushing policies that go [...]
Tags: Activism · Government · Movement Perspective
Steven Lerner on Slapping Wall Street Upside the Head
March 30th, 2011 · 1 Comment
Two weeks ago, I wrote about how I think we should go on the offensive. Other folks have been trying to answer the some question – and some of them are trying to actually do something. Steve Lerner, ex-SEIU organizing strategist and one of my heroes, is one of them. Here’s his [...]
What Next?
March 11th, 2011 · Comments Off
Yesterday’s loss in Wisconsin was a real blow, although the folks in Wisconsin and their supporters around the country did a damn good job of fighting back. Now they’re gearing up for the next battle. Their immediate target: recall the jackasses who voted for it.
I’m glad they’re aggressively going for recalling these [...]
Tags: Activism · Good Jobs · Government · Unions
