Movement Vision Lab is Back! Open Thread for Comments
Here’s the email I just sent to everyone (hopefully including YOU!) publicly launching the Movement Vision Lab. As promised, please use this post to leave your ideas, requests and general comments on the new and improved Movement Vision Lab.
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I know that when you heard the Movement Vision Lab was leaving the Center for Community Change, you panicked. Where will I go for occasionally sarcastic but always sharp insights on radical ideas, grassroots movement building and general derision of liberal spinelessness matched with inspiring hope for a bold alternative? Well, fear not. The Movement Vision Lab is back and better than ever.
Check out my new online home: http://movementvision.org
Go there right now and you’ll find my rant about how progressive discontent with Obama is really masking discontent with our movement’s shortcomings. And you’ll find a post on five alternative forms of resentment that could mobilize the Tea Party set instead of racial animus. (I’d encourage you to add to the list!)
Plus from time to time, I’m posting great articles, book notes and web finds that I’m sure you’ll find of interest.
In the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing with you my vision for the kinds of ideas and questions I hope to explore more deeply going forward — and, most importantly, asking for your input! What social movement questions keep you up at night? What kinds of radical ideas would you like to know more about (or just know exist, for starters…)? I’d like to make the Movement Vision Lab as helpful as possible to the important work you’re doing.
With that in mind, I’ve created an “open thread” (in web speak) for you to log-on and post your thoughts, greetings, whatever you want along these lines. Help me start the conversation right now about how together we can build a broad-based radical movement to transform our nation and our world. Log-on and share your thoughts.
And please bookmark http://movementvision.org and share this email with your friends to help build our list.
Thank you as always for the work you do. I look forward to continuing to work alongside you.
Sally
Great to see the Lab moving forward. There’s been a lot of snow in DC the past ten days, bringing things to a massive halt within the beltway. My hope is that our time to slow down and think has given us the focus and energy to move forward into this year’s elections.
Now more than ever, our country needs to stay fixed on a progressive agenda. Anti-progressive rhetoric continues to thrive, sometimes masquerading as reform. Though real reform only comes through progressive change that moves us all forward together. Seeing how the Tea Party movement creates fractures within its own base, as we witnessed in Nashville the other week, it’s clear to see how self-interest still makes up the mortar for this so called reform movement. One can only hope that such self-interests will ultimately be the demise for the tea party movement.
Glad to see you up and running. Love the fresh, sassy (!) look.
i was beginning to really feel i could possibly be the only man who thought about this, at the least now i know im not loco
i am going to make it a point to look into a few different blogposts right after i get a little caffeine in me, it is really very hard to read without my coffee, I was until the wee hours of the morning last evening jamming zynga poker and after drinking a few beers i finished up losing all my facebook poker chips cheers 