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Commentary Glick: The U.S. Left Turns a Corner

Commentary, July, 11 2007 Ted Glick
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"It is beautiful to see us coming together as I've never seen before." Ruben Solis

Commentary Glick: Making History in Atlanta

Commentary, June, 22 2007 Ted Glick
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Experience shows that history, like nature, does not move in a linear way, in a straight line. It is characterized by long periods of time when, on the surface, little seems to be changing. Then, all of a sudden, big changes can happen, much more ...

Commentary Glick: Up South, All White, Confused and Scared

Commentary, May, 09 2007 Ted Glick
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One year ago a Berrien County, Michigan jury was unable to reach a verdict in a "voting fraud" trial in western Michigan of Rev. Edward Pinkney, a leader in the struggle for jobs, housing, good schools and justice in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Bento...

Commentary Glick: Uniting the Movements: Atlanta, Ga. in Late June

Commentary, April, 01 2007 Ted Glick
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How will we bring about significant change in the USA? There are a number of things that need to happen, but one bottom-line, essential requirement is the coming together of a critical mass of organizers and activists into a grassroots-based, poli...

Commentary Glick: Impeachment Spring 2007

Commentary, March, 16 2007 Ted Glick
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Faced with the maddening intransigence of Bush and Cheney and the unsurprising timidity of Pelosi and Reid when it comes to the war and related issues, it's time for the entire progressive movement to unite RIGHT NOW in a collective, urgent campai...

Commentary Glick: Peace, Justice and a Clean Energy Revolution, Part 2

Commentary, March, 08 2007 Ted Glick
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"The best science tells us we have ten years to fundamentally transform our economy and lead the world in the same direction or else, in the words of NASA's Jim Hansen, we will face a 'totally different planet.' We're calling for 80 percent carbon...

Commentary Glick: Peace, Justice AND a Clean Energy Revolution

Commentary, March, 05 2007 Ted Glick
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"We have a foreign policy that is foreign to our core values, domestic policies that are wreaking havoc at home, and an environment that is being destroyed."

Commentary Glick: Barack Obama: Progressives Beware

Commentary, January, 29 2007 Ted Glick
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"Such wisdom might help us move beyond ideological bickering and serve as the basis of a renewed effort to tackle the problem of inner-city poverty. We could begin by acknowledging that perhaps the single biggest thing we could do to reduce such p...

Commentary Glick: Martin Luther King, Jr: Visionary, Revolutionary

Commentary, January, 15 2007 Ted Glick
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"Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism and militarism. . ."

Commentary Glick: Crisis and Opportunity

Commentary, January, 09 2007 Ted Glick
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"I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve (the human condition) than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general distrust."

Commentary Glick: Thoughts on Strategy

Commentary, December, 25 2006 Ted Glick
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It is instructive to think about a few key differences between where the country and the progressive movement are at right now, several weeks after the 2006 mid-term Congressional elections, and where we were at the same time after such elections ...

Commentary Glick: The Ladders, Then and Now, and Abbie and Ellie

Commentary, November, 15 2006 Ted Glick
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(On Monday I was arrested after being perched with Paul Burman for four hours on a foot and a half wide ledge about 25 feet up over the main entrance to NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in Silver Spring, Md. We had unfurl...

Commentary Glick: It Isn't (Always) Nice

Commentary, October, 27 2006 Ted Glick
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It was the fall of 1969, 37 years ago, at the height of the Vietnam war. I was doing anti-war community organizing in Lancaster, Pa., having left college that spring at the end of my sophomore year. Before doing so I had publicly returned my S...

Commentary Glick: Defending Our Threatened Ecosystem Worldwide November 4th

Commentary, October, 07 2006 Ted Glick
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What do Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, South Korea, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger...

Commentary Glick: No More Oil Wars!, Part 2

Commentary, September, 21 2006 Ted Glick
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It is maddening, if not surprising, to keep hearing George Bush, Condoleeza Rice, John Bolton, Tony Snow and their ilk laying the entire blame for what is happening in Lebanon and northern Israel on Hezbollah, Syria and Iran as the bombs continue ...

Commentary Glick: Labor Day 2006: Power to the People?

Commentary, September, 04 2006 Ted Glick
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A couple of days ago the Gallup News Service released a report on the attitudes of U.S. Americans toward unions. By a two to one margin, people said that they view unions positively, a margin that's been relatively steady for 20 years. However, in...

Commentary Glick: No More Oil Wars; Clean Energy Now!

Commentary, August, 22 2006 Ted Glick
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As a new front in the Middle East powder keg opens up in Lebanon, as Iraq descends into what can only be called civil war, as the Taliban makes a comeback in Afghanistan and as the U.S. continues to rattle its sabers at Iran and Syria, it might ma...

Commentary Glick: Upping the Ante

Commentary, July, 18 2006 Ted Glick
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"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are those who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. . . Power concedes noth...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Commentary Glick: Deep Throat and the Power of the People

Commentary, June, 19 2005 Ted Glick
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There is no question that former top FBI guy Mark Felt's decision to provide information to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in the early '70s was one important part of what led to Richard Nixon's eventual resignation from office in August of...

Commentary Glick: Strengthening Democracy?

Commentary, May, 14 2005 Ted Glick
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About a month ago the Center for Democracy and Election Management at American University in D.C. announced that on April 18th at A.U. a "private commission," the Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker II...

Commentary Glick: A Clean Energy Revolution

Commentary, April, 09 2005 Ted Glick
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Several years ago I heard a prominent progressive leader make a statement to the effect that he didn't have time to be discouraged in the face of all that's wrong in this world. Lucky him.

Commentary Glick: Four More Years

Commentary, November, 10 2004 Ted Glick
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One of the first thoughts I had after I learned that Kerry was conceding to Bush was of something the late Dave Dellinger once said. I was with him in a group that was on a hunger strike in the summer of 1972, protesting the escalation of the war ...

Commentary Glick: Conscience and Political Organizing

Commentary, September, 08 2004 Ted Glick
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I think I've heard and read the word "conscience" more in the last couple of months than almost any time in my life. This has happened mainly in connection with the position Green Party Presidential candidate David Cobb has been putting forwar...

Commentary Glick: Thinking Past November 2

Commentary, August, 10 2004 Ted Glick
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Back in mid-January, when the possibility of a Ralph Nader independent candidacy of the type that he has since developed began to emerge, I wrote a column, "Don't Run Like This, Ralph." I critiqued an article written by his nephew, Tarek Milleron....

Commentary Glick: Nader/Camejo

Commentary, June, 23 2004 Ted Glick
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What an emotional roller-coaster the Green Party Presidential nomination contest has been! What a fascinating development, Independent Ralph Nader choosing Peter Camejo, the 2002-'03 Green Party California gubernatorial candidate and, as the AP re...

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