In The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution, Micah White, one of the original authors of the occupy movement, lays out the future of activism, and protest won’t necessarily be a part. “…the assumptions underlying contemporary protest are false. Change won’t happen through the old models of activism. Western democracies will not…
Category: Messaging
Book Review: Don’t Think of an Elephant
Don’t Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives by George Lakoff (2004) Recommendation: High Blurb: Don’t Think of An Elephant! is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and the right wing’s stranglehold on political dialogue in the United States. Author George Lakoff explains…
Stop Spreading Propaganda
One of the ways some people spread propaganda – and get you to do it for them – is to boldface lie. For example, a few months ago, there was the rumor going around (that many were treating as fact) that “Democrats are proposing full-birth abortion bills.” Well, there’s no such thing as full birth…