Netroots, Detroit and you - where progressive change happens
"We will fight, and we will win!" - Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), July 18, 2014 Turn On the Water march, Detroit, MI, July 18, 2014 Fighting the tyranny of an oligarchy that withholds the existential...
View ArticleOne really absurd racist myth
I was taking part in the cheeky Twitter meme, #TipsForRacists, the other day, and I heard from a couple of White, um, let's see, what do I call them? Supremacists, sure, but too obvious - let's try...
View ArticleNunn's strength: caring community through corporate involvement
In the summer of 2013, weeks before Michelle Nunn announced her run for the U.S. Senate, a nationally recognized Democratic VIP asked me if I thought she would fulfill the rumors and finally throw...
View ArticleIs another 6 years of obstruction what we really need in the Senate?
"We have to make a hard right hand turn." - David Perdue, Georgia Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Put it down to defensiveness born of desperation. David Perdue has been running marginally close...
View ArticleElecting Democrats in the South eases the path to Liberal Progressivism
Time, money and faith - this is the most I have given of all three to Democrats in Georgia. I've written posts. I've knocked on nearly 400 doors. I've opened my wallet to attend and host fundraisers....
View ArticleBroken government comes from a broken electorate
"It stung like hell." - Georgia Democratic Party Chair, DuBose Porter, in a conciliatory email to party activists If a dramatic election happens and no one votes, does it still mean the electorate...
View ArticleA line too long: no choice but action on ‘Broken immigration system’
"Our immigration system has been broken for a very long time -- and everybody knows it." -President Barack Obama, addressing Las Vegas high school students whose families are affected by his use, this...
View ArticleA uniquely poignant Hong Kong democracy protest
A member of the pro-democracy movement sent me this beautiful video performance of art students in Hong Kong protesting to draw attention to the anger over "how unfair the system and the cops are," and...
View ArticleBottoms up - starting a conversation for change in the rural South
"I've always believed that change doesn't come from the top down; it comes from the bottom up." -President Barack Obama, September, 2009 It's been Obama's mantra since the beginning of his...
View ArticleMockingbird: from Atticus Finch to Rachel Dolezal
When Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960, the concept of the White, Southern country lawyer defending a Negro accused of touching a White woman was inspirational. It showed how...
View ArticleSouth Carolina comes to grips with history [video]
Stay tuned for my upcoming diary about being in Columbia, S.C., for this historic event.
View ArticleYes, losing the Confederate flag really means something to South Carolina
When I posted on Facebook last Thursday, that I was thinking about going to Columbia, South Carolina, the next day to watch them finally furl the Confederate flag, I got a little pushback from some of...
View ArticleDying in custody - a most necessary conversation
Truth to power – Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors addresses the crowd in front of Democratic presidential candidate, Gov. Martin O’Malley (far right), Tia Oso of the Arizona Black...
View ArticleBernie Sanders heats up record crowd in Phoenix
Bernie Sanders drew 11,000 people to a convention center floor, Saturday night. You know, one of those cavernous spaces you could put a passenger jet in. It was the largest campaign event of any...
View ArticleHuckabee's monolithic view will get him shoved to the exit door
The oven doors in a crematorium in Auschwitz. Oswiecim, Poland, 1989 I hate to give these clowns more oxygen, but this one hits too close to home. For Christian evangelicals like Mike Huckabee,...
View ArticleWill the power of impassioned politicians work down-ticket?
Curiouser and curiouser. It's like Alice herself is guiding us through the United States of Wonderland's early primary season going into the 2016 presidential elections. Showmanship and passionate...
View Article'Two dimensions of otherness' - the Syrian refugee crisis migrates to America
"Each new American citizen brings a unique set of skills and experiences which they can use to improve our communities and our nation. And each of them can help renew our shared hope that unlimited...
View ArticleGhosts in the machine - the GOP enters the spectrum of invisible light
The House Freedom Caucus is suddenly not far right enough for the extremists in the base of the Republican Party. Less than two weeks ago, it was their stubbornness that drove the House Republican...
View ArticleDNC rules change leaves Lessig out of 2016 Democrat debates, forced to leave...
Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig has ended his nascent bid to become the Democrats' nominee for president, despite some remarkable fundraising and outreach. Citing the Democratic National Committee's...
View ArticleSpeaker Ryan's hand on chairmanship scale brushes off fundraising power
Interesting story from Politico about how the new Speaker of the House, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), used his influence to pick his successor as chairman of the powerful, lobbyist enriched, House...
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