Category Archives: Movement Culture

Do We Vote for the “Lesser of Two Evils” or to “Recapture the Revolutionary Spirit.”

“The future of the deep structural changes we seek will not be found in the decaying political machines.” – Martin Luther King* The scale of our problems are far too great. There is far too much at stake. The problems we … Continue reading

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Letter to My Nephew: On Power, Privilege and Passage

Letter to My Nephew: On Power, Privilege, and Passage This article also appeared in CounterPunch. I wish I could tell you that the road ahead was going to offer clear choices, or change without risk, but that is highly unlikely. … Continue reading

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5% for Jill Stein Means More than 55% for Clinton or Trump

A Vote for Jill Stein is a Vote for Democracy A vote for Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for President, is anything but a wasted vote because it’s a vote for democracy. In a land where democracy is lost, … Continue reading

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The Democrats Must Attack Democracy to Serve the Corporate Power

This article also appeared in Counterpunch Insatiable You might think that pervasive election fraud, the conversion of mass media into propaganda, and the already insignificant role that everyday people play in federal government would be enough to satisfy the elite’s … Continue reading

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Clinton and Trump. Fear and Fascism. Part two

Clinton and Trump. Fear and Fascism. Part Two. Read Part One Full Frontal Fascism Trump has returned a deep and frightening bigotry to the public discourse of the so-called center. Hatred has a long history in the US and, while … Continue reading

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Transformation and Reconstruction: The Means and Measure of Revolutionary Change

  The fourth and final post in the series: How Do We Organize a Hundred Million?   Click to read One, Two, Three. Transformation and Reconstruction: the Means and Measure of Revolutionary Change To organize millions, the revolution has to … Continue reading

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Universal Values are Revolutionary Values

Third in the Series: How Do We Organize a Hundred Million? Also find this at PopularResistance and CounterPunch. Universal Values Are Revolutionary Values If we want to organize a hundred million, we must not only go where people live and … Continue reading

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Learn From the Bern

Second post in the series: How Do We Organize A Hundred Million?  Learn from the Bern: Learn the Inside/Outside Strategy The inside/outside strategy is a way to learn as events unfold. It is important that we learn from, work with, … Continue reading

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How Do We Organize A Hundred Million?

First in a series: How Do We Organize a Hundred Million? How Do We Organize a Hundred Million? The strategic considerations discussed in this series of posts assumes that it will take a hundred million activist in the US and … Continue reading

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Conclusion to the Series “On Organizing:” Evolution to Revolution

Last in the series: On Organizing History Has Not Come To An End The series “On Organzing” aims to help us learn from the challenging and confusing dialectical tension that is every organizers terrain and trouble.  Among the most productive … Continue reading

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