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There are an awful lot of reasons for hope these days
Ted Glick
Ted Glick has devoted his life to the progressive social change movement. After a year of student activism as a sophomore at Grinnell College in Iowa, he left college in 1969 to work full time against the Vietnam War. As a Selective Service draft resister, he spent 11 months in prison. In 1973, he co-founded the National Committee to Impeach Nixon and worked as a national coordinator on grassroots street actions around the country, keeping the heat on Nixon until his August 1974 resignation.
Since late 2003, Ted has played a national leadership role in the effort to stabilize our climate and for a renewable energy revolution. He was a co-founder in 2004 of the Climate Crisis Coalition and in 2005 coordinated the USA Join the World effort leading up to December actions during the United Nations Climate Change conference in Montreal. In May 2006, he began working with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network and was CCAN National Campaign Coordinator until his retirement in October 2015. He is a co-founder (2014) and one of the leaders of the group Beyond Extreme Energy. He is President of the group 350NJ/Rockland, on the steering committee of the DivestNJ Coalition and on the leadership group of the Climate Reality Check network.
Long-time peace, justice, democracy and lgbtq activist and trainer George Lakey has written a book, How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning
We actively solicited ideas from people we met with about how a new FREC should be structured so that it is the kind of energy and electricity federal agency needed. We received over 80 specific ideas over the course of the trips
To know that AOC has internalized and is speaking articulately about the qualitatively different mass movement we need to build, and Bernie is picking up on some of that, is so, so hopeful
I’d urge those organizations which support impeachment and have a history of organizing street actions and demonstrations against Trumpist policies to join together for massive street actions this fall
“Troublemaker,” by Bruce Hartford, is a personal memoir of what it was like to be part of the civil rights/Black Freedom movement between 1963 and 1967
This is a proposal which articulates the urgency of our situation regarding the climate crisis and then puts forward a comprehensive and understandable set of actions which could actually get us out of it
It is always encouraging when an international call for unified action on the climate crisis is put out and there’s a widespread, positive response to it at the grassroots
I’ve supported the right of the Puerto Rican people to independence and self-determination since the early 1970’s when I became an activist in the Puerto Rico Solidarity Committee
How are we going to address poverty? One major way, the most critical way, is via the Green New Deal route and the conscious creation of millions of decent-paying jobs as we rapidly get off fossil fuels and create a truly green economy