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Some Things Never Change- Where Is The Radical Today?
Re-reading Reveille for Radicals, I’m struck by how much people talk about how tired the Alinsky method is, and I just get the sense that they can’t be reading him that closely. I read it and I see a...
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Beastie Boys Inducted Into Rock Hall: White People Everywhere Feel Validated
Hilarious: “The Beastie Boys are crude and lewd, without a redeeming social value in sight,” The Plain Dealer’s Jane Scott wrote in her review of the concert. “They shower each other with beer, spit...
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Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss. Lately I’ve been both tired and also comforted by the growing sense that everything we face as radicals has played out before. It’s validating to know that we’re fighting the...
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Immigration Rally TOMORROW at the Free Stamp at 11:00am
There’s going to be a rally tomorrow at 11:00am at the Free Stamp in downtown Cleveland to protect families and children from deportation, a mustering of Latinos from across Northeast Ohio. You can...
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SHORT VERSION- I’m going all in to swing the election and sow some seeds for...
Young ‘uns love hashtags Hey Yall! Sorry I haven’t blogged in a minute. I blew it, but I’m hoping to be a little more consistent with it over the next few months + forever. This is the much condensed...
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LONG VERSION- I’m going all in to swing the election and sow some seeds for...
Hey yall! As promised, here’s the longer version: I just quit my job this week as a community organizer on the Southeast side of Cleveland to spend two and a half months doing voter registration, get...
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The Invisible American State
The State of America I was struck, when reading a couple of awesome articles I found on facebook (‘The invisible American welfare state‘ and ‘Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies Than...
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Updates from our first statewide tour!
“Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but here’s my number, please have everyone you know call me, and I need a firm confirmation rather than a wishy-washy maybe, I’ve got deliverables to hit, yo.”...
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New Year Commitment: Living Fully
After a long hiatus I’ve decided to get back into blogging, writing and reflecting. I hope you dig it! It seems fitting to (re)start off with a simple post on some New Year commitments I’ve been...
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Play Variations
In something of a follow-up to the last post, I just read an excerpt on AlterNet from “Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better...
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Ghosts, and Children of Slavery
Counties where the economy was most dominated by slavery, 1860. “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”- William Faulkner I read a few articles today that struck me as so deeply linked in their...
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Marty Piszczak
Marty Piszczak and me in Piergoi Pete costume at the pierogi dash I heard that Marty Piszczak, one of the mightiest sages of Slavic Village, passed away last night. It’s a huge loss for the...
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The Vote, Lives and Livelihoods, and Power
A Collage Below is a roundup of a handful of articles from the last week. I found that, together, they tell a story of the relationship between voting, White Supremacy and how good our lives get to be,...
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Fast for Democracy
Plantation Capitalism: http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/18821-rev-james-lawson-our-country-is-based-on-plantation-capitalism For a couple weeks now, my buddy Kai has been engaged in a Fast For...
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Love and Grace
I heard the above while at a Brother Ali concert recently. It had never been my favorite Stevie Wonder song, but as an anthem to long-term survival I can think of few better tunes. That song played in...
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