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Glick: Che & Gaza
Commentary, January, 06 2009
Ted Glick
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I wonder if, centuries from now, Che Guevera will be looked upon by people around the world in the way Jesus of Nazareth is looked upon by billions today, as a model for how one lives one's life.
Glick: Don't Just Mourn, Escalate!
Commentary, December, 09 2008
Ted Glick
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My Thanksgiving holiday and the days right after it weren't the greatest, and it's not because I didn't enjoy spending time with my extended family in Pennsylvania. It's because, literally right before I left home to drive there, I read a couple o...
Glick: Obama Wins; Will the People?
Znet Article, November, 05 2008
Ted Glick
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These electoral victories are definitely something to celebrate. It is a good thing that the neo-conservatives, the rush-to-war crowd, the super imperialists and rabid rightists who have been dominating the Republican Party and, by and large, the ...
Glick: Making a Green Revolution
Commentary, October, 24 2008
Ted Glick
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A review of three recently-published books on the climate crisis and what we need to do about it.
Glick: Fossil Fuel Independence Now!
Znet Article, October, 13 2008
Ted Glick
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It was encouraging to see, as I was literally sitting at my computer getting ready to start this column, an email from 1Sky urging people to write to the Democratic and Republican Presidential campaigns expressing concern about recent problematic ...
Glick: Two-Party Conventions and Social Change
Commentary, August, 25 2008
Ted Glick
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The first Democratic or Republican Convention I went to as an outside protester was the 1972 Republican Convention in Miami, Florida. This was where Richard Nixon was nominated for what turned out to be a much-shortened time in office due to his r...
Glick: Is Obama's Energy Plan Change We Can Believe In?
Commentary, August, 20 2008
Ted Glick
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On August 4th the Barack Obama Presidential campaign released a comprehensive program for reform of the U.S. energy system. In the words of Obama supporter and climate blogger and author Joe Romm, it was "easily the best energy plan ever put forwa...
Glick: Obama, McCain, Green Jobs and Climate Solutions
Commentary, August, 17 2008
Ted Glick
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At least eight years late, the Democratic and Republican Presidential campaigns are actually debating U.S. energy policy and what to do about global warming. And not just this week but many times during the course of this way-too-long Presidentia...
Glick: Prioritizing Climate
Commentary, June, 30 2008
Ted Glick
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The hard truth is that humankind is in grave danger of blowing it. Serious action to shift from oil, coal and natural gas to renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation is a good 10 years late, particularly in the USA. And we need to be c...
Glick: No Easy Victories
Commentary, June, 20 2008
Ted Glick
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It is a basic tenet of successful organizing that you need to win victories in order to hold the allegiance of a critical mass of supporters and keep your organization together. But it is also true, as African revolutionary Amilcar Cabral said, th...
Glick: By 2030: Only Renewable Energy!
Commentary, June, 03 2008
Ted Glick
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As the climate movement increasingly focuses its energies on Capitol Hill, Dr. Navarro's insights about the potential negative impacts of doing so in the wrong way are worthy of serious consideration.
Glick: Mazzocchi, Speth and Capitalism's Future
Commentary, May, 21 2008
Ted Glick
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I don't know if Gus Speth and Tony Mazzocchi knew each other personally. Speth's work career has been as a co-founder and senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, with President Jimmy Carter's Council on Environmental Quality, a...
Glick: Obama and Wright: Different Worldviews
Commentary, May, 05 2008
Ted Glick
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Jeremiah Wright summarized the difference between him and Obama in his interviews last weekend as, "I do what pastors do. He does what politicians do. I am not running for office."
Glick: Let's Intensify Spring Anti-War Actions!
Commentary, March, 28 2008
Ted Glick
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March 19th was an historic first for the Iraq peace and justice movement. Over 1,000 activists, intergenerational but with many dedicated and energetic young people, took part in non-permitted, edgy, stepping it up type actions in Washington, D.C....
Glick: Obama, Clinton, McKinney & Nader
Commentary, March, 05 2008
Ted Glick
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Progressives, speaking broadly, are clearly divided when it comes to the four most well-known, liberal or progressive Presidential candidates who are still out there.
Glick: Non-Electoral Activism in a Presidential Election Year
Commentary, February, 25 2008
Ted Glick
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Just about a year ago a leading activist in the climate movement made a comment that I took note of at the time and haven't forgotten: Presidential politics overshadows all other politics during a Presidential election period.
Glick: Obama vs. Clinton, A Second Thought
Commentary, February, 10 2008
Ted Glick
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Obama vs. Clinton, A Second Thought
Glick: No War, No Warming, Round Two
Commentary, February, 02 2008
Ted Glick
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Early in the morning of October 22nd last fall several hundred people quietly arrived on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Many of us were organized into affinity groups. There was the anti-capitalist bike block. There were Iraq Veterans Against...
Glick: Obama vs. Clinton: What's the Beef?
Commentary, January, 22 2008
Ted Glick
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After Iowa and New Hampshire, it sure looks like the three-person horse race for the Democratic Presidential nomination has now become a two-person race.
Glick: Ending the 2007 Fast
Znet Article, December, 31 2007
Ted Glick
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Two days ago, December 19th, Congress’ last day of work for this fall, followingthe House’s vote in support of $70 billion in no-strings-attached money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and, as a result, in support of an appropriations billfor...
