- Jun 17, 2021
- 4 min
PARTNERSHIPS, ALLIANCES, AND COALITIONS: From Marriage To Parasitism
A core theme of Advocacy Organizing is that knowing the underlying socio-economic, political, demographic, and cultural trends in each...
- Jun 9, 2021
- 4 min
DEEPER THAN QANON: What Is Shaking Our Reality – And Our Minds?
We now know that at least 30 million Americans, about 15% of the adult population, believe that “the government, media, and financial...
- May 26, 2021
- 3 min
FIGHTING RACISM: CULTURE, VALUES, AND RELIGION ARE AS IMPORTANT AS SELF-INTEREST
The classic left-wing strategy for discussing racism is to stress how the bosses use it to divide and conquer the working class --...
- May 23, 2021
- 3 min
JUSTIFIABLE ANGER AND STRATEGIC PATIENCE
There has been a palpable rise in the hurt and anger of young people over the past year. Particularly among young, usually...
- May 22, 2021
- 2 min
UNIVERSAL RIGHTS AND WHITE FREEDOMS
In the book, I point out that America’s “Founding Fathers” (as well as most of the white, male, leaders of the European Enlightenment and...
- May 21, 2021
- 1 min
Francis Fox Piven says....
THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP OF ELECTORAL AND MOVEMENT POLITICS “People don’t join movements unless they think they can win something. What...
- May 18, 2021
- 2 min
Theory of Change As Campaign Planning Tool
The "Theories of Change" chapter in Advocacy Organizing, describes different high-level forces that shape society and history. But the...
- Apr 17, 2021
- 1 min
HOW TO TURN YOUR RED STATE BLUE, by Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo.
At its most basic, organizing is talking to people about important issues, plus moving them to take collective action. First, you need a...
- Apr 2, 2021
- 2 min
Wins & Losses Are Often Intertwined
As subordinate groups painfully find ways to win some degree of stability and security within the existing socio-economic system, some...
- Apr 2, 2021
- 1 min
MONEY TALKS
Mary Lasker was a Manhattan socialite who used her wealth and political connections to get government funding for the War on Cancer and...