by George Goehl | Aug 3, 2020 | Election, Featured
As a young organizer, I was told we shouldn’t engage in electoral politics - that it was dirty, and a distraction. But after a long run of not winning what we most needed, it became crystal clear that operating only in a landscape created by someone else was not...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jul 31, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Protest
Photo credit: Spider Martin GPA photo archive / flickr / cc John Lewis, the Georgia Congressman who led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and was one of the "Big Six" civil rights leaders who organized the 1963 March on Washington, is being...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jun 30, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured
“Don’t Mourn, Organize.” - Union organizer Joe Hill, before his unjust execution in Utah in 1915 “Shut up and dribble.” - Laura Ingraham to LeBron James for commenting on racial justice Dear LeBron, Basketball fans endlessly argue about who’s the greatest player...
by Steven Rosenfeld | Jun 15, 2020 | Democracy, Election, Featured, Politics
Photo credit: National Archives, USDA / cc The signs kept coming that Georgia’s June 9 primary would not go well. On the last day of early voting, the Friday before the election, Jon Ossoff, a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, waited for more than three hours to vote...
by Miles Mogulescu | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog, Election, Featured, Inequality, Race, White Nationalism
Whitehall Street, Atlanta Georgia, 1864. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons / cc Billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Jamie Dimon may personally associate with individual African Americans, Latinos and other minorities. They might even employ them. They...
by Tom Conway | Jun 8, 2020 | Blog, Democracy, Election, Featured, Inequality, Protest
Photo credit: Rosa Pineda / Wikimedia Commons / cc When demonstrations erupted across the country after George Floyd’s death at the hands of police officers, Donald Trump portrayed the protesters as America’s enemies. Trump called them “thugs,” “lowlifes” and...