Although I have my doubts, I’m going to assume that the diarist is simply ignorant about how ALEC is sabotaging local minimum wage laws, at the state level, throughout the country. Thus, I’m going to be polite. :-) A search of the website http://thewelcometable.net/ for either the phrase “ALEC” or “American Legislative Exchange Council” shows [...]

It’s the people blabbering “climate change denier!”, who can’t or won’t define it, that give themselves away as brainwashed tribalists. You missed the point, again, trying to twist around my point into yet another supposed personal defect (“ignorant”) of mine. Big surprise, there. Oh, yeah, your reference completely ignores the duplicitous generalization aspect of “climate [...]

Your silly advice is rejected, as my low opinion of blogs as change agents remains, and for the same reasons I’ve already stated. Blogs need more references to works such as “Blessed are the Organized”, not less. AFAICT, the “quick hits” capability of openleft.com was well thought of, and many a “quick hit” got more comments than [...]

Yes, and I’m actually quite used to people spewing nonsense, including nonsense about the climate by people who can’t even define simple phrases that they use, over and over. Phrases like the Orwellian “climate change denier”. As is their right. But some rights are better left un-exercized. I have given some thought to improving blog [...]

Are you capable of understanding that this is a public forum (even if privately owned), and information can be shared here, for the benefit of all? And yes, that includes lightweight diaries that are essentially references. There is precious little analysis and investigation of models for change that actually work. I have made this point [...]

Won’t happen, though this may be the beginning of the end of Erdogan. See Turkey: The AKP Regime Is Not in Trouble, But Erdogan Is

I don’t particularly care if he is the #1 conman, #2, #3, or whatever. A much more interesting question is : who is organizing intelligently to make duplicitous liars like Obama, difficult acts to pull off? The public is not making the job of Presidential conman difficult and particularly thankless. So, in fact, Obama does [...]

To elaborate, a bit: they want to work with existing union leaders, but if they can’t, they are not going to let that stop them.

Organizing of unionized workers to operate outside the orbit of their perhaps-corrupted unions has begun. See Alternative Visions – National Labor Fight Back Network Being Formed – 05/29/13

Dr. Jack Rasmus invites long time union representative and guest, Jerry Gordon, to report on the recent conference in New Jersey at which a ‘National Labor Fight Back Network’ [...]

I stopped by, yesterday. Most of the protesters were concerned about Turkey, and were wearing red. Thus, a picture linked to, above , doesn’t represent what I saw. Well, never stare a gift horse in the mouth. If Turkish-Americans help spark a revival of the Occupy movement, more power to them – whether or not it’s [...]

I suppose it’s fair to call some semi-specific, and some vaguely suggestive. I’ve been concerned with explaining ideas in enough detail to communicate the idea; not necessarily create something analogous to a business plan. I don’t like to repeat full explanations of ideas that I’ve already explained, elsewhere. Somewhere or other (perhaps democracyabc.org, which is [...]

Apportioning the major share of the blame to those with their hands on the levers of power in no way “absolves” people — even very nice people and people who are not so nice — from being informed and taking an active role in the civic life of their state and local communities and beyond if [...]

n the case of this video, and in light of the Sanders Amendment vote, the question then arises of what ideas they put forth to take over the US Senate? Or at least credibly begin the process of twisting their arms? (E.g., like I suggested, here.)

Oops, forgot the link to Twisting Your Congress Critters’ Arm – [...]

But yes, much more is needed, but what, specifically?

Oh, man, if you read my diaries you will see lots of outside the box thinking and suggestions. My defunct website, democracyabc.org, had some additional stuff. I honestly think that I have the highest percentage of “how-to” type stuff (admittedly, mostly from just thinking, rather than the [...]

Well, “sheeple” refers to lots of nice people, including people in my family, who make no political efforts, whatsoever. As nice as they may be, in a society such as ours, the blame has to (in my view) rest with us, the people/sheeple. However nice they may be, and however closely related. Of course, this [...]

But, the next Occopy moment could begin in the Senate offices of the following Democrats who voted against Bernie Sander’s Amendment to the Ag bill now being debated on the Senate floor that simply called for states to permit requirements that food and beverages be labeled to identify the presence of GMOs:

That’d be better than [...]

Imagine my surprise. Not.

See my diary How you, too, can figure out that Obama betrays the 99%, and works for the 1%, first and foremost.

I don’t think any scientist could possibly dispute that AGW is “real”, at least in the sense of the urban heat island effect. Not all scientists accept that CO2 is a Green House Gas, but they seem to be in a small minority of dissidents (dissident = so-called “climate change deniers”). The scientists I mentioned [...]

97% of over 4000 studies conclude that human activity is causing global warming. It’s reached scientific concurrence, except in Congress. Even the 1% believes it now, they just want to prevent us from doing anything about it that will cost them money.

It seems that Cook and Mark Richardson stink at math (which may be a [...]