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Loeb: If You Care About Keystone and Climate Change, Occupy Exxon
Znet Article, December, 28 2011
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The pipeline matters, because building it invites the acceleration of tar sands extraction
Loeb: The Election Needs You, Broken Heart and All
Znet Article, September, 19 2010
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"OK, so your heart's broken," as the old song goes. So's mine. But we have to get over it -- now -- and start taking action for the November election.
Loeb: The Seductions Of Clicking
Znet Article, August, 15 2010
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Without online technologies, Barack Obama would never have gotten past the primaries.
Loeb: Village Politics
Znet Article, July, 25 2010
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How do we respond to a political landscape where Meg Whitman can spend $80 million on her primary candidacy alone? Or where, aided by the ghastly Citizen's United Supreme Court decision, right-wing groups are pledging over $200 million for the Nov...
Loeb: Unexpected Environmental Alliances Amidst The Oil Spill
Znet Article, July, 03 2010
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In the wake of the BP disaster, we've heard powerful stories from fishermen whose livelihoods may have been destroyed for decades or longer.
Loeb: Stories Of Impact Will Push Us To Fix The Oil Spill, Homelessness, And Other Big Problems
Znet Article, May, 29 2010
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While I was on a recent radio show, a student called in from a campus "Rally Against 1070," that challenged Arizona's draconian immigration law. The rally was a great idea, part of the public outcry that's needed. But I wish they'd called it somet...
Loeb: Volunteers Can't Solve Our Problems
Znet Article, May, 05 2010
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Through Global Youth Service Day, millions of young women and men got involved in their communities last week, often taking their first steps into lives of commitment. That's a powerful potential force for change. But how do we help them, and ours...
Loeb: "From Drunken Party Girl to Climate Change Activist"
Znet Article, April, 18 2010
Paul Rogat Loeb
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When we try to engage people politically we never know who will respond, or when someone will shift from reveling in their apathy to taking powerful public stands. With Earth Day coming up, here's a striking example of one such transformation.
Loeb: Soul of a Citizen: What Cynicism Costs Us
Znet Article, March, 09 2010
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When America elected Barack Obama, cynicism seemed in retreat, beaten back by a wave of ordinary people staking their time, money, and spirit on the prospect of significant change... Now, cynicism and despair have bounced back on steroids.
Loeb: Saving the Economy, One Furnace at a Time
Znet Article, January, 20 2009
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Like most Americans, I’m guarding my dollars, but when my furnace died during Seattle’s coldest winter in decades, I needed to replace it. And when I did, with a high-efficiency Trane model made in Trenton New Jersey, the costs and gains unde...
Loeb: No Time For Nader: A Letter To Nader And Mckinney Voters
Znet Article, November, 02 2008
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I’d thought little about Ralph Nader’s potential electoral impact until I read recent polls suggesting he was drawing 3% among likely Ohio voters, 4% in Nevada (plus 1% for Cynthia McKinney), 3% in Pennsylvania, and 5% in Missouri. This means he m...
Loeb: Volunteer Energy and Political Tipping Points
Znet Article, October, 15 2008
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On election day four years ago, I was canvassing in home state of Washington, alternately knocking on doors for gubernatorial candidate Christine Gregoire and breaking to call Ohio and Florida.
Loeb: Pit Bull Palin
Znet Article, September, 11 2008
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When Sarah Palin joked about herself and her fellow hockey moms as pit bulls with lipstick, she may have revealed more than she intended. She made it sound a compliment—portraying herself and her peers as ordinary mothers who look good but are to...
Loeb: The Rovian Politics of Choosing Sarah Palin
Znet Article, September, 01 2008
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What does it say about John McCain that he not only picked the least experienced Vice Presidential nominee in America’s history, but picked someone he really didn’t know? Departing so far from any normal concept of appropriate background, he shoul...
Loeb: Will Clinton's Advisors Tell Her the Hard Truths?
Znet Article, February, 20 2008
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I know it seems a geological eon ago, but in the wake of Clinton's major Wisconsin defeat, remember the resignation of campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle? And how Doyle never told Clinton about the campaign's massive hemorrhaging of cash, while C...
Loeb: Hillary Clinton's Sleaze Parade
Znet Article, January, 22 2008
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Politics can be a rough game. Candidates need to hold their competitors accountable and challenge distortions and lies. And God knows, we need a Democratic nominee who's willing to fight. But Hillary Clinton's campaign has included far too many ch...
Loeb: Hillary Clinton and the Ghosts of 2006
Znet Article, December, 31 2007
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Maybe Hillary Clinton's right that going back to the candidates' past illuminates their character. I'm not sure we need to know whether they spilled their milk in kindergarten, but let's look at the 2006 election. Barack Obama's Hope Fund PAC, Cli...
Loeb: Dick Cheney's Fondest Pipe Dream, Revisited
Znet Article, December, 26 2007
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Ever since Hillary Clinton supported the reckless Kyl-Lieberman Iran bill, her Democratic competitors have been blasting her for her stand, and rightly so.
Loeb: Pre-Empting The Next War
Znet Article, October, 03 2007
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With the Senate embracing the reckless Kyl-Lieberman amendment, we've moved one step closer to a...
Loeb: Wild Weather Creates Chances for Political Progress
Znet Article, September, 09 2007
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Wild Weather Creates Chances for Political Progress
Loeb: The Fugitive Girl Act
Znet Article, August, 29 2006
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Do you remember the Fugitive Slave Act? It criminalized not only slaves who'd escaped to non-slave states, but also anyone who helped them flee. That law has troubling echoes in a new law, passed by the Republican Senate and House, that will make ...
Loeb: Seattle Shooting
Znet Article, August, 03 2006
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Through the actions of a lone man with an unstable mental history, the Middle East wars have hit my community. Naveed Haq, from a middle class Pakistani-American family in eastern Washington State, shot six women at the Seattle Jewish Federation...
Loeb: Global Warming, Local Hope
Znet Article, June, 16 2006
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As the evidence of global warming becomes inescapable, I fear Americans will switch instead to a fatalistic pessimism. Maybe it's real and maybe it's our fault, this sentiment goes, but at this point there's nothing we can do, so we're off the hoo...
Loeb: Enron's Good Fight
Znet Article, May, 27 2006
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"We fought the good fight," Jeff Skilling said, standing strong after he and "Kenny Boy" Lay were convicted of defrauding Enron stockholders. But what an odd choice of words. I suppose Joachim von Ribbentrop and Attila the Hun could say the same ...
Loeb: Out Of The Shadows
Znet Article, April, 13 2006
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People marched in Seattle for immigrant rights, like the two million people elsewhere, because families and futures were at stake. We didn't have a half million like Los Angeles or Dallas, or 300,000 like Chicago, but 25,000 marched for fifteen bl...
Loeb: Filibuster Bush, Impeach Alito
Znet Article, January, 15 2006
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In the wake of the Alito hearings, mainline pundits are calling his nomination a done deal. Alito didn't spew obscenities or green bile. He didn't admit that he'd reverse Roe v. Wade or vow to proclaim George Bush Lord Emperor. Rehearsed and coach...
Loeb: Drowning the Hard Questions: A Nova Special
Znet Article, November, 26 2005
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Since Bill Moyers retired, I watch PBS pretty rarely. I remembered why when I saw the NOVA special on New Orleans, "The Storm that Drowned a City." It gave some useful chronology, but in an hour-long program on the genesis and history of the storm...
Loeb: The Real Rosa Parks
Znet Article, October, 31 2005
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We learn much from how we present our heroes. A few years ago, on Martin Luther King. Day, I was interviewed on CNN. So was Rosa Parks, by phone from Los Angeles. "We're very honored to have her," said the host. "Rosa Parks was the woman who would...
Loeb: Speaking Truth To Roberts
Znet Article, July, 30 2005
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From the moment the John Roberts nomination was announced, the media called it a done deal. NPR and the New York Times gushed over his humility, humor, and congeniality. With Roberts's belief system barely mentioned, you'd think Bush had just nomi...
Loeb: The Enemy of Our Enemy May Still Be the Enemy of Democracy
Znet Article, July, 14 2005
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As right-wing religious leaders attack Alberto Gonzales for being insufficiently doctrinaire, it's tempting to accept him as the best we can get for the Supreme Court. In a recent HuffingtonPost blog, Rob McKay suggested we mute our opposition voi...
