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political praxis & catalytic communications

  • The honeymoon is over — time to get busy

    I’ve been saying it since before the inauguration: If progressives expect Obama (and the Democratically controlled Congress) to create the kind of policies we want, we have to organize and apply the public pressure to make them do it. We know that the corporate powers, with their enormous influence and abundance of resources, are not Read more

  • Blog Fail, Qwest Fail, Big Media Fail

    OK, I said this was about “slow blogging,” but I never intended to be this slow. It’s been over 7 weeks since my last post. Just getting started and then I stopped. Pathetic. I blame Qwest. Qwest Fail: I’d blocked out most of a week in between project deadlines in mid-October to catch up on Read more

  • Revisiting the Van Jones debacle — lots of blame to go around

    I was going to write about something else this week, but the ouster of green-jobs adviser Van Jones from the Obama administration has me livid. It’s just so wrong in so many ways and on so many levels. Of course the smear campaign by the right-wing noise machine, led by Glenn Beck, was ugly. Distortions Read more

  • In search of passionate intensity

    “The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” —”The Second Coming,” W.B. Yeats My previous post advocated for more passionate intensity from the sensible majority in this country and our representatives in government. Without that, the worst will win. So I was very glad to see signs that organized labor Read more

  • Health Care Reform and Energy Reform — Half a Loaf or Just Crumbs?

    The array of forces against meaningful reform is formidable and relentless. How will progressives—and all people with basic common sense—respond? Read more

  • Look out world!

    I’ve started blogging. Well, perhaps it’s an overstatement to say I’ve already started. But I’ll be starting soon! Read more