JanuaryJan 28 Wednesday 09
Rootwork: Freelance web services, online organizing and more for nonprofits
Last year, I launched my freelance consulting firm, Rootwork, which provides web development services, online organizing and fundraising strategy and more for nonprofits.
Some of you have already noticed that the old articles from this site have moved over there (with …
JanuaryJan 22 Thursday 09
So, what should we do now that racism is over?
Because you know some people are going to be making that argument now.
"Hey, we don't need affirmative action, there's a black man in the White House!"
Right. Just like when FDR was elected, they stopped bothering to try to cure polio.
NovemberNov 2 Sunday 08
'I want a language that speaks the truth.'
At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day -- indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue -- the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
One more great quote, relevant to this site, …
OctoberOct 18 Saturday 08
Drop Debt Not Bombs: Drexel Convocation Dance Party [Flickr]
quixoticlife posted a photo:
Convocation is when the president welcomes people to Drexel and talks about the glories and traditions of our fine academy. It's generally a boring waste of time. Instead Drexel Students for a Democratic Society hosted a hoppin' outdoor …
Drop Debt Not Bombs: Drexel Convocation Dance Party [Flickr]
quixoticlife posted a photo:
Convocation is when the president welcomes people to Drexel and talks about the glories and traditions of our fine academy. It's generally a boring waste of time. Instead Drexel Students for a Democratic Society hosted a hoppin' outdoor …
Drop Debt Not Bombs: Drexel Convocation Dance Party [Flickr]
quixoticlife posted a photo:
Convocation is when the president welcomes people to Drexel and talks about the glories and traditions of our fine academy. It's generally a boring waste of time. Instead Drexel Students for a Democratic Society hosted a hoppin' outdoor …
Drop Debt Not Bombs: Drexel Convocation Dance Party [Flickr]
quixoticlife posted a photo:
Convocation is when the president welcomes people to Drexel and talks about the glories and traditions of our fine academy. It's generally a boring waste of time. Instead Drexel Students for a Democratic Society hosted a hoppin' outdoor …
Drop Debt Not Bombs: Drexel Convocation Dance Party [Flickr]
quixoticlife posted a photo:
Convocation is when the president welcomes people to Drexel and talks about the glories and traditions of our fine academy. It's generally a boring waste of time. Instead Drexel Students for a Democratic Society hosted a hoppin' outdoor …
OctoberOct 14 Tuesday 08
Gender politics and civic discourse
In the wake of Matthew Shepard's death, the playwright Tony Kushner wrote an essay, "Matthew's Passion," in which he talked about the hate speech that leads to hate crime. He said,
A lot of people worry these days about the death of civil discourse ... [but] I mourn …
MayMay 15 Thursday 08
Just what kind of social change are you interested in?
This month's "Net2ThinkTank" question: "Is Online Activism Good for Social Change?"
As someone who was quoted in the "Social Citizens" report and has written in the past about technology and social change, my answer to that question would certainly be "yes."
But I think …
MayMay 2 Friday 08
May Day with Mushrooms
I went to a demonstration this afternoon in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, sponsored by the Farmworkers Support Committee (CATA) based in South Jersey and the Kaolin Workers Union in Kennett Square. This part of rural (but increasingly exurban) southeast PA is a …
MarchMar 28 Friday 08
Genocide Intervention Network nominated for NetSquared mashup award
This week, the Genocide Intervention Network was honored to be nominated by the NetSquared community as a 2008 Featured Project for our proposal to upgrade and extend the DarfurScores.org website:
The Genocide Intervention Network seeks to create a new website, modeled …
MarchMar 26 Wednesday 08
Drupal for Nonprofits, or, How to Build Social Networks for Change
(Cross-posted to NetSquared)
Earlier this month, NetSquared was generous enough to fund my attendance at the Lullabot Drupal Intensive workshop in Providence, Rhode Island. Drupal is a free, open-source content management system that allows non-technical users to update …
Drupal for Nonprofits, or, How to Build Social Networks for Change
(Cross-posted to NetSquared)
Earlier this month, NetSquared was generous enough to fund my attendance at the Lullabot Drupal Intensive workshop in Providence, Rhode Island. Drupal is a free, open-source content management system that allows non-technical users to update …
The War Poet, or, Language As Citizenship
"While public funds flow into brotherly festivities,
a bell of rosy fire tolls in the clouds."
--A. Rimbaud
Deep in that darkened heart
Land full of coffee-shot discussions
And schooled yard taunts:
This community, communities,
we fight to find
fight to …