What I’ve learned about “positive politics”

I miss graduate school.  The UMASS Boston program’s training in pedagogy was excellent, but the dual degree also focused on organizational change and dialogue, which I fell in love with. The following list is a guide for managing the political aspects of effective management and community organizing.  It was developed during my graduate work, and…

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The elegance and power of nonviolent talk

Good evening. I discovered an article written by William Powell, the author of “The Anarchist’s Cookbook.” The title is “I wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969.  Now I see its premise as flawed”. Powell argues for his book to taken out of publication and urges us to understand that “violence can’t be used to prevent…

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