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Occupy the Atmosphere (shameful self-promotion alert!!)
Those clever (no sarcasm) and astute people at Rhizome are trying to get a conversation going about what the Occupy folks might learn from the experience(s) of Climate Camp. To this end they’ve asked me to pitch in. The discussion … Continue reading
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Tagged climate camp, climate change, movement-building, rhizome, social movements
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Of Susan B Anthony, stuff blowing up, and learning from the Ants
We “dissidents” can be sadly ignorant of ‘our’ history. It’s not often in the history books (unless you read Howard Zinn), so we need to look a little harder, think a little further. Fortunately, there are people like On This … Continue reading
Posted in activism, competence
Tagged Feral Scholar, leaving babylon, On This Deity, rhizome, Stan Goff, Susan B Anthony, Three Mile Island
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Links 2011-04-03 Coal, Egypt, Climate Camp, Agentic Deadlock
We are All Wotan have an excellent post on “Jevons Paradox” quoting John Bellamy Foster: “Jevons had no answer to the paradox he raised. Britain could either rapidly use up its cheap source of fuel – the coal upon which … Continue reading
Exasperation versus Contempt
Hmm, every so often I use this blog to propound distinctions (possibly hair-splitting ones) that might be the teensy-weensiest bit self-serving/self-exculpating. A while back it was “arrogant is better than smug-discuss” – the former being ok because it was upfront … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, activism, competence, framing
Tagged contempt, exasperation, judgment, movement-building, rhizome, smugosphere, social movements
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Account ability – excellent suggestions from Rhizome
This is why the Tinterwebs is such a brilliant invention. Cos you set up a blog, and you have a great bunch of people reading (and that includes you very occasional commenters, and heck, you lurkers too). And, just when … Continue reading
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Tagged movement-building, rhizome, social capacity, social movements
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Minding your language, and reverse ideastorming…
Owen Jones has a website that is, if you’re a politico, well worth a look. He has a recent post called “Why the left needs to watch its language” which is not a Lakoffian “reframing” excercise, but actually full of … Continue reading
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Tagged decruitment, movement-building, rhizome, social movements
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