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Building a Subversive Grassroots Network - IEEE Spectrum - 0 views

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Building a Subversive Grassroots Network - IEEE Spectrum

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  • thinkahol * on 12 Sep 11
     
    How Commotion Wireless plans to enable digital communication in the face of an Internet shutdown
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The Tragedy of Under-Reaching | CommonDreams.org - 0 views

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The Tragedy of Under-Reaching | CommonDreams.org

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  • thinkahol * on 04 Nov 10
     
    We need to build a grassroots progressive movement -- wide, deep and strong enough to fight the right and challenge the corporate center of the Democratic Party.
Kristen Briggs

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  • The FairTax Plan is a nonpartisan national grassroots campaign to replace the federal income tax system with a progressive national retail sales tax
thinkahol *

US Uncut -- a Grassroots Uprising Against Corporate Tax Deadbeats | | AlterNet - 0 views

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US Uncut -- a Grassroots Uprising Against Corporate Tax Deadbeats | AlterNet

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  • thinkahol * on 23 Feb 11
     
    The IRS estimates that individuals and corporations currently hold $5 trillion in tax haven countries. Nearly two-thirds of corporations pay no taxes at all, and the great vampire squid, Goldman Sachs, which received $10 billion dollars in taxpayer money during the bailout, negotiated their tax rate down to one percent. The entire tax haven scam costs taxpayers as much as $100 billion per year.
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What's behind the scorn for the Wall Street protests? - Salon.com - 0 views

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What's behind the scorn for Wall Street protests? - Salon.com

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  • thinkahol * on 03 Oct 11
     
    Not just media outlets, but numerous Democratic pundits, heap mockery on the grassroots activism
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Inspired by tea party success, Latinos float 'Tequila Party' grass-roots movement - Yah... - 0 views

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Inspired by tea party success Latinos float 'Tequila Party' grass-roots movement - Yahoo! News

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  • thinkahol * on 05 Dec 10
     
    Latino leaders in Nevada and around the country are floating the idea of breaking traditional ties with the Democratic Party and creating a grass-roots independent movement tentatively called the Tequila Party. According to Delen Goldberg at the Las Vegas Sun, the leaders want to pressure the Democratic Party to deliver on Latinos' priorities much in the same way the tea party has done with the GOP over the past few years.
Levy Rivers

Rob McKay: Small Is the New Big in Progressive Politics - Politics on The Huffington Post - 0 views

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  • The grab for this group of voters has generally been coordinated by a seasoned team of professional campaign staff operating in war rooms and spending millions in mobilizing voters. But new efforts among progressive voters, musicians, and grassroots groups are saying the way to be "big" in '08 is to "go small." And how resources are spent in this election and after, could determine whether the Democratic Party is about short-term voter excitement or permanent citizen engagement.
  • This new group of efforts focuses on local leadership, small circles, and cultural organizing. They are taking their strategies from the anti-slavery movement, groups like craigslist, and most surprisingly, a new Christian movement. "
  • Potts and other organizers note that while overall church attendance has steadily declined since the 1990s, a new form of church has taken off--the house church. Unlike traditional churches, the house church movement doesn't meet in a specific house of worship, but instead, as the name suggests, in people's homes.
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  • They note the key to the success of these churches is threefold: 1. Shared values rather than on autocratic rule. 2. Peer circles, rather than as a large, rigid, top-down hierarchy. 3. Leading through inspiration rather than by formal authority, allowing, but not forcing, others to follow them.
  • As Potts, who is organizing with musicians during 08, puts it "The conservatives have churches every Sunday, progressives have concerts every night." From an organizing perspective, concerts are for progressives what churches have been for conservatives.
Arabica Robusta

Bloggers are Africa's new rebels - Chicago Tribune - 0 views

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  • Dagem, as he chose to be called, was a new type of African revolutionary: a blogger.
  • The U.S. should take note. As it prepares to engage with Africa more intensely than at any time since the Cold War, in part by the Pentagon’s establishment of a new Africa Command headquarters to coordinate military and security interests, the U.S. will be competing on an increasingly flat information playing field.
  • Gone are the days when Washington could control its messages in client states. The scruffy cyber cafes of Chad and the man in Congo who rents his cell phone by the minute – sometimes climbing atop a tree to improve reception – ensure that Washington’s voice will have to vie with those of the resource-hungry Chinese, or with the designs of Al Qaeda recruiters.
  • Arabica Robusta on 27 Dec 09
     
    "The U.S. should take note. As it prepares to engage with Africa more intensely than at any time since the Cold War, in part by the Pentagon's establishment of a new Africa Command headquarters to coordinate military and security interests, the U.S. will be competing on an increasingly flat information playing field."
  • Arabica Robusta on 27 Dec 09
     
    This older article highlights the immorality of much that is called U.S. foreign policy and journalism. The lesson learned here is not what it should be, that people on the grassroots are fighting against authoritarian violent governments funded by the U.S. Rather it is a bland, neoimperialist comment about what the U.S. propaganda machine has to deal with in future interventions.
rich hilts

TWO Powerhouses On ONE Show- Dec 18th - 0 views

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  • rich hilts on 18 Dec 10
     
    Two hosts, one show - hot discussions on some of the hottest topics from Don't Ask Don't Tell to Conservative Cannibalism - visit the link to see more info!
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