Strategies for Change

Phyllis Chesler’s reflections on how the radical feminist movement was powerful but also killed its own

How to destroy relationships, communities, and democracy

A major figure in the women’s liberation movement in the 60s and 70s, her dynamic flame burned out when she was only in her 20s. Her story dramatizes two dynamics that cripple radical movements.

How do we talk and think together coherently about love, domination, and cooperation?

An anthill. A beehive. A crackling campfire around which the cave kids could play, the cave elders stay, and the buffalo strips blacken all day

The blurb for a story in Truthout tells it. Dismiss the shame and blame, and cut to the strategic point:

Resistance From a Cage: Julian Assange Speaks to Norwegian Journalist Eirik Vold
Eirik Vold, Truthout:

A key element in movement building

A "grassroots" response to the question: What would it really take to give students a first-rate education

There’s a good graffiti story that goes with this title.The graffitti was "your karma ran over my dogma," but that story will have to wait for another time. The basic idea is not difficult: reality will make a mess outta of our theories, dogmas, ideologies. The 2008 meltdown is one example. Another is finding out that the other does not love me the way I think she/he should. This bubble gets busted ad infinitum.

More on the long, long perspective

We short-shift ourselves if we don't think in the long term, the really long, long term.

The point is to change the world, and to do that we have to become that change. Our political mission is a hugely spiritual mission of personal and collective transformation. More simply: learning to love.

There is a great need to re-invent the newspaper so it can serve the needs of particular communities everywhere. The Banyan Project is exploring the possibility of using the consumer co-op model for a community-based internet news service that would help communities advance their own interests.

Tell your Senators to support the credit union lending cap.

The Credit Union Lending Cap Increase needs your support

The situation in Quebec has escalated since February from a student strike over planned tuition hikes — effectively shutting down universities — to a state of generalized insubordination

The video embedded in the full story below is a session with David Harvey, a prolific author championing Freedom of the City and David Graeber, the Occupy Activist, Anarchist, Anthropologist. The videw is almost an hour and a half and both authors take substantial time to provide context on both the books and their feelings about #occupy. Harvey's book is Rebel Cities and Graeber's is Debt: The First 5000 Years. There is a lot of good thought and support for co-operative action and power.

Go to the full article for the video:

Valve is a Software game development company founded by an alumnus of Microsoft. Self-funded, it has about 300 employees. Its first product came together quickly and paid off handsomely. Most importantly, it has no bosses. It is entirely flat. There have been several write-ups recently about Valve in the mainstream (Capitalist) business press pointing out the "no boss" structure.

Solidarity Economic perspectives develop from penetrating reflection on our actual experience to find the questions we need to be asking

Part two of an interview with Cheyenna Weber of SolidarityNYC