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Archives for October 2012
Mike Edwards | Tools for Unraveling the Emperor’s New Clothes, Pt II
In Part II of our interview with Mike Edwards, he talks about the importance of civil society reclaiming its wisdom and the great potential that lies in movements like Occupy […]
Change Your Map, Change Your World?
Contributed by Premadasi Amada In the words of Lauryn Hill, “How you gonna win when you ain’t right within?” Social change work can’t succeed when those doing the work are […]
40 Scholarships for Journalists & Movement Participants to Change the World | Call for Applications
Contributed by Premadasi Amada “A ten-day intensive training in the nonviolent martial arts of communications, strategy, tactics and in using our abilities to unleash the talents of many to […]
Mike Edwards | Tools for Unraveling the Emperor’s New Clothes, Pt I
Michael Edwards is a writer and activist based in upstate New York who focuses on the links between personal and social transformation. He has spent 35 years in the non-profit sector in […]
How Voting Affects Your Health
Voters on Election Day not only hold the fate of democracy in their hands when they step into the voting booths. Casting a ballot can also have subtle effects on […]
Engagement Organizing
Matt Price and Jon Stahl have put together a paper about the change they see happening in the world of advocacy. On their Web site it reads, “We are in […]
The Veil of Opulence
Political decisions are made based on the perspective of the maker, even if that perspective has nothing to do with what that person is capable of achieving in the present. […]
october 2012
New Laws Could Disenfranchise 10 Million Latino Voters The disenfranchisement of voters is a reoccurring theme in modern election history. A report from The Advancement Project warns that the […]
YogaVOTES | Voting from the Mat
At first glance it may seem like yoga and voting have absolutely nothing in common. After all, a body-based spiritual practice and political candidates don’t even show up on […]
Fannie Lou Who? Why Voting Rights Still Matter
We all honor the Civil Rights Act and the hundreds of thousands of people who marched, spoke, or gave their lives to see the next generation into something better. So […]
october 2012
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until…lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom. ~Plato, Greek Philosopher