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Commentary Glick: Political Strategy, Macro and Micro

Commentary, April, 03 2010 Ted Glick
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I’ve written in recent Future Hope columns, and for years really, about what I consider are the main elements of an overall strategy for the eventual emergence of a strong, impactful, broadly-based, Left political movement in this country.

Commentary Glick: Principles, Program, Strategy, Tactics

Commentary, March, 04 2010 Ted Glick
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I have discovered, over the course of my years as an organizer for positive social change, that it is important that members of an organization or movement learn to distinguish between principles, program, strategy and tactics. An inability to do ...

Commentary Glick: Climate and Political Tipping Points

Commentary, February, 22 2010 Ted Glick
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There's a famous quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." However, according to Wikipedia, it may be that this concept was first expressed by a U.S. labor leader, Nicho...

Commentary Glick: Following Howard Zinn

Commentary, February, 07 2010 Ted Glick
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Feburary 1st, 2010 was the 50th anniversary of the student sit-in at a white’s only, Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. that sparked the 60’s civil rights movement. I suspect that those four brave students, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil,...

Commentary Glick: Upping the Ante on Climate

Commentary, January, 24 2010 Ted Glick
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Just about one year ago, Barack Obama was inaugurated as President. Hopes were high among progressive-minded people, including climate activists. Finally, we had a President who got it on the need for action to address the deepening climate crisis.

Commentary Glick: The Power of the People

Commentary, November, 04 2009 Ted Glick
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The 350.org International Day of Climate Action a week ago was unprecedented, historic, stirring and inspiring. Watching the pictures scroll across the computer screen at www.350.org from literally all over the world, seeing the very concrete evid...

Commentary Glick: Gandhi Today

Commentary, October, 04 2009 Ted Glick
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140 years today Mohandus Gandhi was born in Gujarat province in India. I didn't learn this from the New York Times, CNN, or any other mainstream media source. I didn't learn about it from progressive media outlets, although it is very possible tha...

Commentary Glick: Copenhagen: Turning Point or More of the Same Old Same Old?

Commentary, September, 23 2009 Ted Glick
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This coming week, in New York City and Pittsburgh, there will be important United Nations and G20 meetings that could advance the process of coming up with a new international treaty to address the climate crisis. This coming week will also see th...

Commentary Glick: Can We Make It?

Commentary, September, 01 2009 Ted Glick
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More than once over the last several years I have talked with people who understand the deep hole humankind has dug for itself because of our reliance on fossil fuels and the dominant system’s environmentally destructive model of “development....

Commentary Glick: Health Care, Climate and the Progressive Movement

Commentary, August, 18 2009 Ted Glick
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The last week or so has been the right-wingers-at-town-meetings moment, and it looks like it's going to be supplemented by something similar but different: rallies organized by fossil-fuel-supporting corporations in these states: Texas, Georgia, M...

Znet Article Glick: Health Care, Climate and the Progressive Movement

Znet Article, August, 18 2009 Ted Glick
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The last week or so has been the right-wingers-at-town-meetings moment, and it looks like it's going to be supplemented by something similar but different: rallies organized by fossil-fuel-supporting corporations in these states: Texas, Georgia, M...

Commentary Glick: James Lovelock and the End Times

Commentary, August, 03 2009 Ted Glick
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British scientist and author James Lovelock has just had published a follow-up book to his 2006 book, "The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity." This 2009 one is entitled, "The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning."...

Znet Article Glick: If You Want a Revolution, Start With a Clean Energy One

Znet Article, July, 10 2009 Ted Glick
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications

Commentary Glick: We Need More Than ACES

Commentary, June, 29 2009 Ted Glick
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Yesterday morning, on the day that the House of Representatives very narrowly passed a very problematic-a bad-climate bill, I finally became clear in my mind what I was hoping for.

Commentary Glick: It Isn’t Nice

Commentary, June, 02 2009 Ted Glick
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Off and on, for the last five years that I’ve been actively involved with the climate movement, I and others have analogized what we need to be doing on this issue to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. What we’ve meant is that w...

Commentary Glick: Don't Worry, "We've Got 41 Years"

Commentary, May, 18 2009 Ted Glick
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"This is 2009. We've got 41 years in this deal, and we shouldn't be so worried about the first 10 years."

Commentary Glick: Is "Washington" Winning?

Commentary, April, 03 2009 Ted Glick
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It was a couple of weeks before the historic March 2nd shutdown action at the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant on Capitol Hill in D.C. A national leader of an important climate group came up to me in the hallway at a conference we were both attendin...

Commentary Glick: Powering Past Coal

Commentary, March, 13 2009 Ted Glick
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It was tremendous to be part of the crowd of thousands of people demonstrating last Monday, March 2nd at the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant on Capitol Hill. But I wonder how many of those who have heard about this action or who even took part are ...

Commentary Glick: Let the Clean Energy Revolution Begin

Commentary, February, 26 2009 Ted Glick
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It began with a statement by Nancy Pelosi in early January, referring to federal legislation to cap and reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emissions: "I'm not sure this year, because I don't know if we'll be ready. We won't go before we're ready."

Commentary Glick: Third Party Organizing Under Obama

Commentary, February, 03 2009 Ted Glick
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The nomination of Tom Daschle for both White House "health czar" and Secretary of Health and Human Services is in trouble. It's in trouble because information has come out that Daschle, former Democratic Party leader in the U.S. Senate, didn't pay...

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