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Ethics and Believability in Politics: On Sifry's Theory of an 'Obama Disconnect'

Peter Daou | Posted 01.05.2010 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Obama, Bush, Micah Sifry, Health Care, Grassroots, Ethics, Politics News

Micah Sifry has written a widely discussed essay about the denuded Obama grassroots movement. But if Obama's online movement was fueled by a myth, then why bemoan its loss?

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Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum and PEACEJAM on Global Healing

Lys Anzia | Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: Women, Globalgiving, Charity, Grassroots, Non-Profits, Peace, Philanthropy, Guatemala, Imapact News, Volunteering, Causes, Activism, Service, Nobel Laureate, Giving, Spirituality, Impact News

"During my most difficult moments and complex situations I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future," Menchu Tum says with conviction.

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Top-Down Blowback; The GOP Discovers That the Grassroots Bites Back

Rob Kall | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Top-Down-Bottom-Up, Gop, Teabaggers, Bottom-Up, Tea Party, Grassroots, Republicans, Michael Steele, Tea Party Protests, Health Care Protests, Rush Limbaugh, Conservative, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Paul Krugman, Health Care, Politics News

Limbaugh, Beck and Palin tap the energy and emotions of the masses and flame their biases and bigotry. The web and the media have changed the rules. The grassroots are connected like never before.

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To Repower America With Clean Energy, Meet Me at The Wall

David Boundy | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Repower America, Grassroots, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Grassroots Campaign, Take Action, Alliance for Climate Protection, Green News

There are too many urgent reasons to tackle this challenge of a generation, and there is nothing more compelling than hearing them straight from the people who care the most.

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News

Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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Iranian Women's Voices

Mahnaz Afkhami | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Women's Rights, Censorship, Islam, Iran, Journalism, Gender Discrimination, One Million Signatures Campaign, Iranian Women, Grassroots, Oppressive Government, Books, Books News

In the flood of news and information that surrounds us every day, we may take for granted the constant ripple of voices around the globe whose struggle to be heard often ends in violence, imprisonment or death.

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Obama Uses Facebook, Twitter To Advance Health Care Reform

Huffington Post | Posted 10.21.2009 | Technology

Read More: Social Media, Obama, Congress, Time to Deliver, Organizing for America, Grassroots, Technology News

President Obama used social networking to overwhelm Congress' phone lines Tuesday when he asked his thousands of followers on Facebook and Twitter to ...

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Reining in the Rogue Democrats--Petition For Primary Challengers

Paul Loeb | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baucus Bill, Public Option, Grassroots, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Filibuster, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Petition, Health Care, Politics News

Forcing Senators like Nelson, Baucus, and Lincoln to respond to the American public, through a petition, would be the right thing politically as well as morally.

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ActOnPrinciples.org: The Follow-Up to the Big Gay Weekend

Lane Hudson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Rights, Gay Rights, The Dallas Principles, Online Organizing, Act on Principles, Grassroots, Gay Issues, Politics News

The big question for gay rights following this weekend's march is whether the momentum will continue. Act On Principles is a call for full civil equality with "no delay and no excuses."

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For Liberty Examines the Kingmakers

J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Boaz, War on Terror, Rasmussen Poll, Antiwar Movement, Grassroots, Markos Moulitsas, Ron Paul, George W. Bush, David Kirby, Thomas Jefferson, Libertarian, Campaign for Liberty, Republican Convention, 2008 Election, CNN Poll, Arianna Huffington, Afghanistan War, Daily Kos, Iraq War, Nicholas Sanchez, Joe Scarborough, Tax Day Tea Parties, For Liberty, David Brooks, Alternative Media, Grover Norquist, Tea Party, Republican Party, Swing Voters, Republicans, 2010 Elections, 2012 Election, Politics News

The documentary For Liberty beautifully shows us what Markos Mousitlas called the only true people-powered campaign in 2008: Ron Paul's campaign.

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Rethink Learning, Now

Sam Chaltain | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Education, Arne Duncan, Brown v. Board of Education, Equity, Sam Chaltain, Grassroots, Al Franken, High-Stakes Testing, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Teaching, Fairness, Learning, Living News

Learning involves more than basic skills and regurgitating information. It requires higher-order skills and the capacity to digest, make sense of, and apply what we've been taught.

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"Go Out And Make Me Do It"

Peter Dreier | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Insurance Companies, Ben Nelson, Health Care for America Now, Public Option, Grassroots, Hcan, Barack Obama, Insurance Industry, Jeff Bingman, Mary Landreiu, Activists, Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, Health Care, Blanch Lincoln, Obama Speech to Congress, Politics News

Having a president who inspires people to act collectively on their own behalf can make a difference. It gives people hope and courage to defy obstacles.

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Disorder on the Border: Trashing the Law in the Name of Immigration Deterrence

Randall Amster | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

The strategy of deterrence that drives both border enforcement and crackdowns on humanitarians is fundamentally flawed.

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Marco Rubio Crushing Charlie Crist Among Florida GOP Grassroots

Senate Guru | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2010 Senate, Censures, Charlie Crist, Florida, Marco Rubio, Primary, Grassroots, Fl-Sen, Republicans, Straw Polls, Politics News

Among Republicans who have heard of both Crist and Rubio, we have a statistical dead heat. A major primary upset may be in the works.

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Congo: Midwives Transform Trash Into Hope

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Since Secretary Clinton ended her African trip, the news cycle has seemingly abandoned the women of Congo.

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Show Me the Money! Using Your Capital To Save The World At This Year's SOCAP Conference

Julia Moulden | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

What's up? It's the second annual SOCAP conference, the world's premiere social capital markets event (social capital investments incorporate three kinds of returns: financial, social, and environmental).

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Health Care Reform? Yes We Can!

Lucia Brawley | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Feinstein, Grassroots, Town Halls, Boxer, Obama, Chu, Health Care, Watson, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Politics News

Health care reform supporters don't grab the same level of publicity as the right, unless Howard Dean attends an event, because we agitate rationally. It's time for us to get a tad more theatrical.

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Democrats Plan More Than 500 Reform Rallies

Politico | Chris Frates | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rallies, Grassroots, Healthcare Reform, Democrats, Lawmakers, Organizing for America, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

Faced with a souring public mood on health care reform, Democrats and their supporters are launching a national grassroots push Wednesday to show lawm...

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Barack Obama Is Not Bagger Vance

David Roberts | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Magic Negro, Bagger Vance, Health Care, Grassroots, Barack Obama, Climate Bill, Politics News

Obama can't save progressives. They'll save their agenda, if at all, with persistence and organizing. As it always was.

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Netroots Nation Frustration and the Impediments to Progressive Change

David Roberts | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Nelson, Netroots Nation, Grassroots, Waxman-Markey, Netroots, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Aces, Health Care, Astroturf, Blue Dog Democrats, Climate Bill, Politics News

It's become clear that structural features of American politics make it so change averse that virtually no progressive electoral sweep is enough to do the job.

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11 Habits of Highly Effective Lobbyists

Michael Markarian | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Halls, Grassroots Activism, Animals, Astroturf, Lobbying, Congress, Grassroots, Coal Industry, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News

It seems that grassroots lobbying is getting a bad rap these days, but that shouldn't discourage animal advocates from being in touch with their members of Congress.

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My Letter to the President

Shawn Rubin | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: African Leaders, President Obama, Ghana, Grassroots, Longitude, Politics News

I was excited to hear you bring to light African grassroots efforts to make change, and I hope you will continue to be an advocate for all struggling African social entrepreneurs.

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Sarah Palin Fundraising Driven By Small Donors

Five Thirty Eight | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Palin, Small Donors, Grassroots, Ron Paul, Political Action Fund Palin, Sarah Palin, Alaska, Fundraising, Sarahpac, Palin, Politics News

Sarah Palin's political action committee -- SarahPAC -- raised $733,000 in the first half of the year and is set to push past $1 million in the wake o...

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A Woman's Place, in Lebanon

Nadya Khalife | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Switzerland, Hezbollah Lebanon, Lebanon, Grassroots, Free Patriotic Movement, Women and Politics, Sunni, Hezbollah, Christians, Shia, Muslim, World News

Lebanese women won the right to vote in national elections 19 years before women in Switzerland. Yet political participation by Lebanese women remains dismal at the national level.

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Student Loan Forgiveness Initiative Gaining Momentum?

Jon Chattman | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Website, Gm, Grassroots, Economy, Middle Class, Stimulating the Economy, Obama, Democracy, Robert Applebaum, Student Loans, Facebook, U.S. Senate, Unemployment, Town Hall, Blog, College, Student Loan Forgiveness, Councilman, Politics News

With the lack of jobs for new graduates, as well as older borrowers, there is a looming student loan bubble about to burst.

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