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Beware Frank Luntz's Lies and Rein in the Big Banks!
Seen the ad from the "Committee for Truth in Politics"? If the name weren't comical enough, the visuals are. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't take the message seriously. Read More>
The Political Lessons of Super Bowl 44
Progressive organizers, activists, and politicians can learn a lot from the Super Bowl Champions about how to win this year and beyond. Here are 3 key lessons: be who you are, be bold or go home, and remember your supporters. Read More>
National Tea Party Convention Kicks off with Frenzy of Anti-immigrant Bashing
We call on Sarah Palin to cancel her key-note address to the tea party conference in protest of Tom Tancredo's hateful speech. Read More>
The Real State of our Union
The state of our union is fractured and perilous. We continue to face an economic crisis of truly historic proportions. There are more than six jobseekers for every unfilled job - a gap that is growing, not shrinking. The Congressional Budget Office projected yesterday that unemployment will remain above 9% for at least the next two years. And joblessness is worst for communities of color, youth, and women who head households. Almost one third of all Americans scrape out an existence at double the pathetically low federal poverty rate or lower. Read More>
Got Grants? Maximizing Impact in 2010
Funders are getting advice from all over the place these days… hold the line, be strategic, cut back on grants, make more grants, stick with what you know, try something new, give to programs, offer general support…. Aarrgghh! What’s a funder to do???? Here's my take for how funders can maximize impact in 2010 and beyond. Read More>
Where do we go from here?
Community organizers and progressives have a critical role in shaping the understanding and response to what actually happened in MA. We must avoid a disastrous turn toward caution and incrementalism. Read More>
The Human Face of Health Care Affordability
The most important event to happen in Washington lately wasn't a back room meeting of U.S. Senate heavy weights, a press conference by House of Representatives leaders or even a speech by President Obama. Yesterday, more than 200 grassroots and faith leaders from across the country held a National Affordability Summit on Capitol Hill with members of Congress to stress the importance of including strong affordability protections in the final health care reform legislation. Read More>
Racism has consequences
Perhaps there is more at work than the latent racism that leads to remarks that are at their best in poor taste and at their worst indicative of utter moral failure. The way to work through a controversy like today's uproar is to put these incidents into a larger narrative about the consequences of entrenched racism and prejudice. Once that narrative is constructed, we can create a solution. Read More>
Affordability is non-negotiable in health care reform!
Compromises in the Senate version of health care reform has split the left on how best to proceed. Yet there is one thing that unites all of us and that is the issue of affordability. The final health care bill that will be presented to President Obama MUST include stronger affordability and coverage provisions for low and middle income families, particularly if a mandate is implemented. That, in our eyes, is non-negotiable. Read More>
Sugar or Salt?: Understanding the Moment We’re In
As we approach the end of a remarkable 2009, in which we threw ourselves with passion and savvy into an intense effort to secure major policy changes at the federal level, many of us have been wrestling with how to make sense and meaning of the current political moment that we find ourselves in. I have alternated between believing fervently in two interpretations of this moment –which at least at face value contradict each other. Read More>
