Rethinking the Economy

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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