RAMON DURAN
Warsan Shire
William Chambers
William Chambers on His Father - “Ed believed in straight talking, on the value of interaction with fellow humans. He placed little worth on the “non-doing talkers” or the “self aggrandizers”. Listening to today he probably would have said something like: “Well, what good is that going to do anyone. I won’t be there to enjoy it. Save your breath and go do something useful.” Read more
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Jenny Whitcher
Reflections on Democratic Education - All, I am enjoying this conversation and agitation around our collective work. In looking at the whole of the conversation there are three areas I will engage: 1) Critical hope versus fatalism, 2) Praxis examples of integrated relational organizing and agency-centered democracy, 3) Accepting the challenge. Read more
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Kathleen O'Toole
Dick Harmon
Relational Meetings are the core practice for the IAF tradition of organizing. This paper is primarily addressed to veteran leaders and organizers, people who have deep experience with this “habit.” But it may also interest people with other levels and areas of experience—especially young people who already realize the limits of social media in building long-term civil sector power for non-partisan democracy. Read more
As we reflect on the energy and mystery in each person and the process as a whole, we can perhaps begin to see a “shimmer,” a “glow,” a “new life” in the people we have come to know; and in our own self. Read more
I’ll say it directly: this healing, courage and imagination can emerge from our relational work. If we do it well, we can live in dignity and die well. Here is what I see as possible, in multiplying local arenas: Read more
Recognizing Ed Chambers - In retrospect, I see in this brother a man deeply acquainted with suffering— like all of us, a bundle of paradoxes, operating in the tension of freedom and control, great generosity and narrow self-interest, work and family, public and private, compassion and cruelty, cooperation and competition, transparency and secrecy. In Ed, all of those paradoxes were enlarged, approaching larger-than-life at times. Read more
Frank Pierson
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Tim McCluskey
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Zeik Saidman
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Rev. Paul Buckwalter
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The Oracle Bus Blockade: Two Views
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Crossing the Line
A poem by Robert Neustadt -
Little children cross the line. Thousands, legions of children, seeking the love of a mother, a father, a place to be. A place where you can eat. Read more |
Amanda Tattersall
My Hope for Sydney: A Reflection by Amanda Tattersall - On Monday morning at 10:34 am, I got an SMS from my sister saying “stay away from Martin Place!” My heart skipped a beat. I had only just left the Queen Victoria Building, where my mum had picked up my 4 year old son so they could go off and look at the Christmas decorations in the city. Read more
Rules for Revolutionaries: A Review - ... there are some fundamental weaknesses in the argument it presents. My motivation in writing this review is to caution campaigners, organisers and activists to not take these so called “rules” as gospel. |
Mike Gecan
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Perry Perkins
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Bill Droel
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