NEW – GREG PALAST on dirty tricks and voter suppression in the midterms
Written on December 18th, 2018Investigative reporter GREG PALAST (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) has been exposing GOP dirty tricks and voter suppression since 2000. Listen for the latest in the mid-terms in Georgia, Florida, and elsewhere – and how to fight back.
New-LESLIE CRUTCHFIELD-How Change Happens: Why Social Movements Succeed
Written on November 30th, 2018While elections matter, a vital society demands much more. In How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don’t, LESLIE CRUTCHFIELD examines some movements that have succeeded — from tobacco control and gun rights expansion, to marriage equality and acid rain reduction — as well as recent campaigns that haven’t – like Occupy Wall Street, controlling C02 emissions, and gun violence prevention. Her research identifies six practices linked to success. We’ll explore them so you can put them to work.
NEW – DAVID CORN, Mother Jones The Most Important Election of Our Lives The Most Important Scandal in Our History
Written on October 27th, 2018DAVID CORN wrote the Mother Jones cover story – The Most Important Election of Our Lives, declared that “The Russia scandal is the most important scandal in the history of the United States”, and co-authored with Michael Isikoff, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump. Who better to talk to at this moment…less than two weeks till the midterms.
NEW – JOHN NICHOLS Beto O’Rourke & What It’s Going Take to Turn Things Around
Written on October 13th, 2018https://www.thenation.com/authors/john-nichols/
NEW – JOAN WILLIAMS – White Working Class – Overcoming Class Cluelessness
Written on September 28th, 2018A friend emailed me JOAN WILLIAMS’ Harvard Business Review article, What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class. Read over 3.7 million times, it’s the most read article in HBR’s 90-plus year history, and I can see why. WILLIAMS is the author of WHITE WORKING CLASS: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America. “If we don’t take steps to bridge the class culture gap, when Trump proves unable to bring steel back to Youngstown, the consequences could turn dangerous.”
