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Commentary Glick: Fracking, Obama and the 2012 Debate

Commentary, February, 21 2012 Ted Glick
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It is up to the climate movement and the movements against extreme energy extraction to speak up and take action loudly and clearly to force those who want to lead us to respond

Commentary Glick: November 6: More than Just the Climate Movement?

Commentary, October, 30 2011 Ted Glick
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Let’s win one for our wounded Mother Earth and its people. Let’s have a massive turnout on November 6th

Commentary Glick: The Tar Sands Action

Commentary, September, 06 2011 Ted Glick
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There was so much hope for the future in and around the two weeks of sitting-in and standing-in in front of the White House, August 20-September 3

Commentary Glick: Mass Movements in the USA Today

Commentary, August, 20 2011 Ted Glick
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The climate movement has emerged over the last few years as a genuine mass popular movement that continues to grow and develop

Commentary Glick: Youth and Positive Social Change

Commentary, June, 30 2011 Ted Glick
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The repercussions from this willingness to take on a big challenge, to risk failure, are continuing to reverberate

Commentary Glick: Appalachia Keeps Rising

Commentary, March, 03 2011 Ted Glick
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Without question, one of the most rewarding organizing experiences I have ever been a part of was the “Appalachia Rising” mobilization in late September of last year.

Commentary Glick: On Revolutionary Leadership and Mass Action

Commentary, February, 14 2011 Ted Glick
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I know very little about the ins and outs of the groups which have been organizing for democracy and justice for decades in Egypt. But I do know enough about revolutions...

Commentary Glick: The Third Force Idea

Commentary, January, 26 2011 Ted Glick
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Several times in columns over the last year or so I have written about the need for a “third force,” a broad, independent and progressive united front.

Commentary Glick: New Year Thoughts: On Our Own

Commentary, January, 07 2011 Ted Glick
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For those who are upset about the Republican victories two months ago, it would be good to reflect on these words of Bob Herbert.

Commentary Glick: The True Story of Pocohontas

Commentary, December, 09 2010 Ted Glick
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Earlier this year I came across a book, The True Story of Pocohontas, whose story has stayed with me. I knew that I wanted to write about it, and several days ago, while thinking about the Thanksgiving holiday, I realized that this was the appropr...

Commentary Glick: Learning from the Tea Party

Commentary, November, 02 2010 Ted Glick
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With the emergence of the electoral-oriented Tea Party this year, the neo-rightists showed a strategic and tactical sophistication that the progressive left did not.

Commentary Glick: Appalachia Rises; Let’s Do the Same

Commentary, October, 05 2010 Ted Glick
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Media reports of the massive and important One Nation Working Together demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday reported on its diversity, the mix of cultures and issues represented.

Commentary Glick: Rethinking Gandhi

Commentary, August, 27 2010 Ted Glick
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I first learned of and read about Mahatma Gandhi in 1968 when I was a student at Grinnell College in Iowa, around the time that Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed on April 4th. That was the event which got me going on my now-42-years-long life of ...

Commentary Glick: Remember Sasha and Malia!

Commentary, July, 29 2010 Ted Glick
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Harry Reid’s statement yesterday about why he would not be putting forward legislation on the climate crisis blamed the Congressional Republicans. It’s true that, with a few exceptions, Senator Susan Collins of Maine being at the top of the list, ...

Commentary Glick: News Flash: Tens of Millions in USA Like Idea of “Socialism”

Commentary, June, 10 2010 Ted Glick
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Here's some information you probably didn't read about in your newspaper or see on the evening news: according to a Pew Research Center poll released on May 4th, "29% [of U.S. Americans] say they have a positive reaction to the word 'socialism'. ....

Commentary Glick: Will the BP Oil Spill Be the Spark?

Commentary, May, 24 2010 Ted Glick
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Just about a week ago I was on a conference call with leaders of about a dozen national and regional groups which have made the climate crisis a top priority of their work. The two main things we talked about were the prospects for decent climate ...

Commentary Glick: A Response to Bond and D’Sa

Commentary, April, 07 2010 Ted Glick
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Patrick Bond and Desmond D’Sa have written an article, the latest in a series of back and forth’s between climate justice activists mainly in the U.S. about strategy and tactics. It has been mainly U.S. activists because a major focus of the debat...

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: Copenhagen

Commentary, December, 16 2009 Ted Glick
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I'm not in Copenhagen, but if I were I'd be strategizing with other climate activists about how to step up the pressure both inside and outside Bella Center in this second week. I know that there are nonviolent direct actions already being planned...

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...

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."...

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.

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