Capitalism requires us to fear scarcity so that we are willing to trade our labor for money. We have taken this so far that we now fear other working people, fearing they will take what we also need. As Amanda has written about before, we’re very interested in countering this …
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Theory of Change: How I Won the Most Important Campaign Ever
Recently the organizers of the Netroots Nation conference asked me to share the story of how I won the most important campaign of my whole life. (Ok, what they really asked me to do was lead a workshop on how to develop a theory of change, but I told this story anyway.) For …
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No More Mushy, Middle-of-the-Road Messages
"Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind, don't matter and those who matter, don't mind." -Dr. Seuss As this video of my Netroots Nation 2013 plenary session shows, there are things we can do to ensure our messages work: Engage the base Persuade the …
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How to Change Hearts and Minds? Road Trip!
We’ve been doing lots of thinking about the power of conversations as means to create lasting social change. In partnership with the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund and the Breakthrough Conversations Project, we’ve engaged in rigorous research and testing of one of the most …
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Top 7 Inspirational Moments from Netroots Nation
We heard it called “the college reunion I never had” and that accurately describes an incredible few days in Providence, Rhode Island where thousands of committed progressive organizers, activists and of course bloggers, came together for Netroots Nation 2012. Holly Minch and …
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