Political Ideas

A coalition of community organizers, peace activists, left, liberal, progressive groupsand supporting organizations are calling on volunteers to join them October 6, 2011, for an “occupation” of Freedom Plaza in Washington D.C.

U.S.author, blogger, and activist David Swanson says the event is being organized to take over Freedom Plaza to “nonviolently resist what our government is doing.”

Swanson told Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Monday that “we are going to occupy read more

Alan Grayson says “This is a textbook for a college-level course on what it means to be a thinking, feeling American.  I recommend it to everyone with a head and heart.”

He’s talking about this book: http://planamerica.org  It’s called “Fix America! How Each of Us Can Help All of Us.”

I’m proud to have contributed two chapters to it, but even gladder to have read it.  What a wealth of information and inspiration.  This is a collection read more

First they ignore you.

Then they laugh at you.

Then Glenn Beck attacks you as “anarchist communists.”

Then you win.

Join us: http://october2011.org

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To Constitutionally convene or not to Constitutionally convene: that is the question.  (And one taken up by an upcoming conference I’ll be taking part in at Harvard: http://conconcon.org )  Or is it?  The government’s broken, but would a Constitutional convention be broken too?  This debate among those on the left usually takes the form of:

Progressive #1: We need to fix a system that is rotten to the core and outdated by centuries.
Progressive #2: But then read more

The Satan Sandwich budget deal seems to have been left lying on the table in some television green rooms. Dylan Ratigan has begun cursing both political parties, even while still fantasizing about the President saving us. Keith Olbermann and Al Gore want a Tahrir Square in Washington, even while ignoring the actual preparations for it that are going on. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, who are part of those preparations, read more

I’m excited to be speaking at an important conference upcoming at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass.  I’d like to invite you to attend (at no charge).   It’s called the Conference on the Constitutional Convention, and more info can be found at http://conconcon.org

From both the Right and the Left, citizens are increasingly coming to recognize that our Republic does not work as our Framers intended.  Reform of any kind is stalled by those who profit from read more

From Nicole Sandler

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