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Category Archive: Social Change
Why So Many Social Change Organizations Struggle
When nonprofit organizations with issue-specific, niche missions organize themselves around individual donor fundraising, it creates waste, dysfunction and drains power away from real social change.
Networks, Organizations and Movements
When thinking about social change movements, networks teach us that it all comes down to the human connection.
When Organizational Goals Clash with Social Change Goals
This morning I received an online petition to support changes to US fuel efficiency standards, and the reasons I didn’t sign it say a lot about the problems of the social change sector today.
The Heart of the Occupation
Like new-born hearts, beating and radiating from many locations and in all directions, the Occupy Movement is reframing our environmental and social problems as the symtoms of one root cause: the concentration of wealth and its corruptive influence on business and government. The vibrancy of this movement is giving courage to many, and may even shift the way the Tea Party thinks about the real problems now facing America.
Keeping Wall Street Like Cairo, Not London
What we are seeing in Occupy Wall Street and related events around the country is our youth, at least some small segment of it, telling us that everything is not alright. They are telling us that our social fabric is stretched to a dangerous point of fraying.
Citizens United v. United Citizens: Building a Movement to Drive Money Out of Politics
This article originally published on the Huffington Post. Friday, January 21st, marks the one-year anniversary of “Citizens United,” a Supreme Court case that dramatically accelerates the corruptive force of money in U.S. politics. When money flows in our economy, it’s a fuel that helps businesses flourish and people make a living. When money flows in …
Climate Skeptic Monument
Here’s an idea that’s sure to please both sides of the climate “debate.” Let’s build a giant monument to all those who oppose taking action to prevent climate change. We can call it the Climate Skeptic Monument. Here’s a very rough plan for how it might work. I’ll leave it to others who are more …
Elections for sale
This ruling by the Supreme Court on campaign spending is outrageous. Long-term damage to our democracy and our country is inevitable. It just adds more fuel to the arguments against treating corporations as legal persons.
Uber Organizers = Coordinators?
Michael Silberman has a really interesting summary of how things came together recently for the 350 Global Day of Action. The whole piece is worth reading and if you haven’t looked at the amazing array of images gathered from around the world as part of this organizing effort, it really is worth spending some time …
