What kind of militancy would it take to defeat Harper? “I like to call militancy a remedial virtue,” says activist, philosophy professor Stephen D’Arcy No 1043 Posted by fw, April … Continue reading →
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RAN using pledges of resistance, civil disobedience demonstrations, training and petitions against KXL No 780 Posted by fw, June 18, 2013 It is such a pleasure to recognize the multifaceted … Continue reading →
Any activist who stays an activist long enough must confront the question of effectiveness No 578 Posted by fw September 26, 2012 “But a revolution isn’t just an event, it’s … Continue reading →
Van Jones explains how they’re doing it No 521 Posted by fw, July 10, 2012 This post is excerpted from Chapter 7 of Van Jones’ new book, Rebuild the Dream, … Continue reading →
You can’t forever be a protest movement. At some point you have to take power. No 482 Posted by fw, May 20, 2012 “The reason that the progressives are on … Continue reading →
Bank’s CEO Brian Moynihan’s speech gets “busted” No 437 Posted by fw, March 15, 2012 Boyo, has the Women Occupy crowd got its act together with a multifaceted mix of … Continue reading →
No 402 Posted by fw, February 4, 2012 Columnist, Gerald Caplan, asks What happened to Harper’s opposition? (Globe and Mail, February 3, 2012). (Click on the linked title to read … Continue reading →
No 391 Posted by fw, January 24, 2012 “As Keystone XL gets pulled into the center of the political battlefield, it’s worth remembering how the pipeline became a national issue … Continue reading →
No 388 Posted by fw, January 19, 2012 In this series of posts, the goal has been to introduce readers to some of the key ideas in Tim Gee’s book, … Continue reading →
No 387 Posted by fw, January 13, 2012 To put this and past posts in this Counterpower series in perspective, the purpose of the series is to help activists understand … Continue reading →
No 386 Posted by fw, January 11, 2012 “For the most part, governments attempted to ridicule the anti-war movement of World War 1. As resistance movements began to exert their … Continue reading →
No 385 Posted by fw, January 10, 2012 Chapter 3 of Tim Gee’s book, Counterpower: Making Change Happen, examines the tactics governments have used to thwart Counterpower movements. In his … Continue reading →
No 384 Posted by fw, January 3, 2012 Parts 2 through 5 of this series were excerpted from Chapter 1 of Gee’s book, Counterpower: Making Change Happen. These posts centred … Continue reading →
No 383 Posted by fw, January 1, 2012 This series is based on Tim Gee’s Counterpower: Making Change Happen. Gee conceives of Counterpower as the ability of the powerless to … Continue reading →
No 382 Posted by fw, December 28, 2011 This series is based on Tim Gee’s Counterpower: Making Change Happen. Gee conceives of Counterpower as the ability of the powerless to … Continue reading →
No 381 Posted by fw, December 27, 2011 This series is based on Tim Gee’s Counterpower: Making Change Happen. Gee conceives of Counterpower as the ability of the powerless to … Continue reading →
No 380 Posted by fw, December 27, 2011 Just to recap – This series, based on Tim Gee’s Counterpower: Making Change Happen, really began with a review of his book. … Continue reading →
No 379 Posted by fw, December 24, 2011 In a previous post, I wrote: There’s much talk these days – particularly from the left — about the need to build … Continue reading →
No 344 Posted by fw, November 25, 2011 “Counterpower’s mission is to map political movements and understand how change happens, to ‘delve into the archive of history and try to … Continue reading →