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Znet Article Glick: Remembering Anne, Damu and Vickie

Znet Article, May, 28 2006 Ted Glick
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"Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly."-Helen Keller On this Memorial Day weekend, 2006, I choose to r...

Commentary Glick: The Great Turning

Commentary, May, 18 2006 Ted Glick
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"Rather than give in to despair in this often frightening time, let us rejoice in the privilege of being alive at a moment of creative opportunity unprecedented in the human experience. Peace and justice for all and a sustainable relationship to t...

Commentary Glick: Si, Se Puede!

Commentary, May, 07 2006 Ted Glick
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I got a sense of how large the April 29th March for Peace, Justice and Democracy was a little after 1 pm on Saturday. While helping to get things organized down at Foley Square for the end-of-march grassroots action festival, I overheard on a poli...

Znet Article Glick: Whose Spring? Our Spring!

Znet Article, April, 18 2006 Ted Glick
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For as long as I’ve been an activist for progressive social change, the spring and the fall are usually the times when pre-planned, major demonstrations or campaigns happen. Summer with its heat and vacations, and winter with its cold and ...

Znet Article Glick: Real Security?

Znet Article, April, 02 2006 Ted Glick
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Several days ago the Democratic Party put out "Real Security," what they call a "bold security agenda" that "stands in stark contrast to the dangerous incompetence of the Republican leadership. . . Americans want policies that are both tough and s...

Znet Article Glick: A Spring/Summer/Fall Counter-Offensive

Znet Article, March, 23 2006 Ted Glick
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I couldn't believe it. Late last week, in big headlines across the editorial page in the Bloomfield Life, were thesewords: "Saturday's rally must call on Bush to resign." The Bloomfield Life is one of two mainstream weekly newspapers in my hometo...

Znet Article Glick: Leadership and Accountability

Znet Article, March, 07 2006 Ted Glick
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Over the years that I’ve worked in the social change movement I’ve interacted with and observed a lot of progressive leaders. I’ve tried to be a good one myself. Out of those experiences I’ve come to believe a numbe...

Znet Article Glick: Core Groups and Mass Movements

Znet Article, February, 19 2006 Ted Glick
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”       Margaret Mead “The masses make history.”       Mao Tse-tung Sever...

Znet Article Glick: Our State of Union

Znet Article, February, 08 2006 Ted Glick
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Our State of Union

Commentary Glick: Victory in Montreal, But. . .

Commentary, January, 17 2006 Ted Glick
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"The Earth's climate is nearing, but has not passed, a tipping point beyond which it will be impossible to avoid climate change with far-ranging undesirable consequences. These include not only the loss of the Arctic as we know it, with all that i...

Znet Article Glick: As the Year Ends

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 Ted Glick
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In many ways a year-end review is artificial. The structures of injustice, oppression and environmental destruction continue to grind people down and seriously threaten all forms of life on this planet, and they will keep doing so next year. Conve...

Znet Article Glick: Grassroots Mobilizing to Demand Action on Climate Crisis

Znet Article, November, 29 2005 Ted Glick
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From Eastport, Maine to Los Angeles, California, North Americans concerned about global warming are holding events later this week to demand action by the federal government and the thousands of delegates at the United Nations Climate Conference m...

Znet Article Glick: 2006, 2008 and Beyond

Znet Article, November, 28 2005 Ted Glick
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Within progressive circles there’s growing talk about the 2006 and the 2008 elections. The Bush/Cheney free fall to an average, between them, of 33-34% in the polls, combined with the indictments and investigations of Rove, Libby, Delay, F...

Znet Article Glick: Taking Up Catastrophic Climate Change

Znet Article, November, 14 2005 Ted Glick
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How do activists become activists? How do they choose what issue or issues to work on? And how do they decide to change focus and work on a new one, perhaps continuing with the old issue(s), or not? I've been thinking about this recently. I've be...

Znet Article Glick: Taking Up Catastrophic Climate Change

Znet Article, November, 14 2005 Ted Glick
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How do activists become activists? How do they choose what issue or issues to work on? And how do they decide to change focus and work on a new one, perhaps continuing with the old issue(s), or not? I've been thinking about this recently. I've be...

Commentary Glick: A Party of the People

Commentary, October, 29 2005 Ted Glick
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30 years ago I became an active member of the first of a number of "third party" organizations that I have been part of over the last three decades. It was then called the National Interim Committee for a Mass Party of the People, shortened a year...

Znet Article Glick: War, Racism and Global Warming

Znet Article, October, 02 2005 Ted Glick
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The three days of anti-war actions in Washington, D.C. last weekend organized primarily by United for Peace and Justice were a huge victory for the progressive movement. From the Saturday rally and march co-organized with ANSWER, to the Peace and ...

Znet Article Glick: Detroit, Washington and Montreal

Znet Article, August, 30 2005 Ted Glick
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"Rise Up, Keep the Sprit Alive,Come Together, Got to Organize,Rise Up, It Won't Be Long,Come Together, Keep our Movement Strong!"            -song by Alli Starr "Wow, this sure is a new experience," I said to myself last Saturday as the Detroit p...

Commentary Glick: Building Unity at a Time of Possibility

Commentary, July, 20 2005 Ted Glick
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"Narrow approaches are a dead-end for our movement. . . What is needed is an approach that can appeal to millions of people, that connects with and draws strength from the deep-seated traditions of struggle for justice among the peoples who make u...

Znet Article Glick: Benton Harbor Minister Under Attack

Znet Article, July, 18 2005 Ted Glick
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It's time for the progressive movement to come to the defense of one of our courageous African American community leaders, Rev. Edward Pinckney of Benton Harbor, Michigan. A little over two years ago, in mid-June, hundreds of unemployed African A...

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