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LOOK: Come For The Techno, Stay For The Public Art

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 05.25.2012

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If you're heading downtown to Hart Plaza for Detroit's Movement Electronic Music Festival this weekend, watch out for the dinosaur. No, it's not a ...

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Keeping It Local With Detroit Performers At Movement

The Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 05.25.2012

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While electronic music fans will be crowding Hart Plaza this weekend to see Movement headliners Public Enemy and Lil Louis, and a long list of DJs fro...

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Keep It Moving After Movement: The Weekend's Best After Parties

Posted 05.24.2012

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As music fans in the city (and around the world) look forward to Movement, Detroit's electronic music festival, we'd like to offer some classic advice...

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Occupy Wall Street: Is It a Good Strategy?

Phil Cooke, Ph.D. | Posted 01.25.2012

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Phil Cooke, Ph.D.

Whatever you think about the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's instructive to take a look at their strategy. Today, anyone who needs to engage the la...

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OWS: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Jon Stein | Posted 12.28.2011

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Jon Stein

As consumers of financial services products, start to demand that your bank, investment advisor and brokerage join this movement. If they aren't willing to publicly declare what you deserve, you deserve a better company.

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Friday Talking Points -- I Am A 99 Percenter

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.14.2011

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Chris Weigant

The Occupy Wall Street protest continues. So far, its staying power has surprised and enthused a large swath of America, and surprised and bemused mu...

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Wall Street Protest, Circa 1967

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.03.2011

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Chris Weigant

Abbie Hoffman's merry band of pranksters took a tour of the NYSE on August 24, 1967. The tour ended at a gallery overlooking the trading floor. Hoffman and his friends rushed to the railing, and began throwing money onto the heads of the traders below.

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Acting in the Tenderloin

Carey Perloff | Posted 10.11.2011

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Carey Perloff

The Tenderloin is a notoriously difficult area to attract audiences to and is not always the safest place to do business. But the energy on the streets in that neighborhood is palpable.

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Models for a Movement

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 10.03.2011

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Craig K. Comstock

The new book GWR: The Global Warming Reader leaves a reader wondering why, given the evidence, there's not a robust movement to replace the causes of...

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The War Must Not Go On!

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.23.2011

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Jim Wallis

The president has announced that after an initial drawdown in Afghanistan, the remaining troops will be withdrawn "at a steady pace" going into 2014. But that's not good enough. President Obama had an opportunity to pivot his policy on the war and he didn't take it.

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Chipotle Firings: One Story of a Broken Immigration System

Jim Wallis | Posted 07.19.2011

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Jim Wallis

While the broken state of our immigration system, and its desperate need for reform, might not be a part of your daily life, there are many for whom it is. It's time we all start following this story.

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Graduating Off a Cliff: The Millennial Generation's Fight for Its Future

Van Jones | Posted 06.18.2011

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Van Jones

Despite their desire to contribute to this country's greatness, Millennials may be the first generation in decades to face worse economic prospects than our parents and even grandparents.

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The Dignity Movement Finds Its Feet

Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Fuller

The weak are not as impotent as they once were. Using weapons of mass destruction and strategies of mass disruption, the disenfranchised can bring modern life to a stop. Humiliation is a time bomb.

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The Egyptian Revolution: An Interfaith Movement

Frank Fredericks | Posted 05.25.2011

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Frank Fredericks

Religion has oftentimes stood as a tool of division in Egypt. However, when you look at the details of what is happening on the ground, this is an interfaith movement.

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Democracy's Drawback

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

America is a strong supporter of democracy worldwide. Except, of course, when we aren't. That piece of doublethink is the heart of the conundrum in which we now find ourselves in Egypt.

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It Takes A Movement: The Next Steps

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

Neither the left nor the right has the answers to our most pressing problems, though each will continue to say that it does. So we have to focus on the spiritual and moral values that bring us together.

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Are Progressives Fiddling While Rome Burns?

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cynthia Boaz

If fall of 2008 was "silly season", then what does that make this election cycle? We are in a critical moment (yes, I know someone says that every ...

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A Reality (and Sanity) Check for Progressives- Speech to Petaluma Progressive Festival

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cynthia Boaz

Transcript of my comments to the annual Progressive Festival in Petaluma, CA, September 26, 2010: First of all, thank you to the organizers of this e...

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A Champion of Hope

Paul Lamb | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Lamb

Recently, I had the pleasure of facilitating an event called "Innovations in Social Justice: New Hope, New Actions" in Berkeley, California. Among the panelists was 21-year-old rapper, artist and community organizer, Babye Champ.

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The F Word: Accepting Defeat in Iraq

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laura Flanders

Better we come to grips with defeat than concede that a lawless operation in some way won and made the U.S. stronger. It didn't.

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Rehearsal in a New York City Night

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jack Schimmelman

One night snow befell New York City. I had a rehearsal planned that night. I did not expect anyone to show. The company came to this event in the m...

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When A Movement Moves

Simon Sinek | Posted 05.25.2011

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Simon Sinek

On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people from across the country descended on the Mall in Washington, D.C., to hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. give his famo...

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Want to Light up a Movement? Think Art, Engage the Heart

Bill McKibben | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill McKibben

2010-07-05-350sun.jpgRight now the left brain really isn't doing the trick. We've known about climate change for 20 years, and so far we've done... nothing.

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Dr. Dorothy Height's Funeral: Lifting Her to Heaven

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

After almost a century of Dorothy Height making this country and world a more just, equal, and hopeful place she is now in heaven, and the rest of us are now going to have to step it up down here.

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The Oklahoma City Bombing Anniversary and Home-Grown Terrorism

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

Are we as concerned about potential terrorists who are home-grown Americans with white skin as we are sometimes obsessed with darker-skinned suspects of Middle Eastern descent?

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