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Rick Dubrow's December 2014 blog post "I'm Done Keeping Quiet!"

"I tried, damn it! When my efforts to prevent coal trains from passing through Bellingham failed, the wind in my sails went still. My activism went… inactive. Although we secured twice the necessary signatures to get it on the ballot, our very own progressive Bellingham City Council crushed Coal Free Bellingham’s ‘Community Bill of Rights’, [...]…

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Added by Rick Dubrow on January 7, 2015 at 12:57pm — No Comments

Where have all of the Student Activists gone?

This is from a blog that I wrote a month or so ago at another space, thought I might share it here:

 

   Where is the activism from students these days?  This question has been itching me for a while, and it's due time I express it!  I haven't been around on this Earth for too long, but historically haven't universities been hotbeds for progressive thought and action? My generation is by-and-large dropping the ball and it is unprecedented and deeply troubling. My…
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Added by Eric Jensen on July 8, 2011 at 8:41pm — 1 Comment

Sprog Blog: A Week at Grassroots Organizing Summer Camp

See original post at my personal blog: http://experimentsinappliedhumanecology.blogspot.com/

 

     I want to write about my recent experience at Sprog, a grassroots organizing camp that I just returned home from. I'm at a loss for where to start, what to write, and how to write it. One of the norms that we established at the beginning of Sprog was to be raggedy when you don't know exactly how to communicate…

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Added by Eric Jensen on June 28, 2011 at 2:01pm — 3 Comments

TW Members: Engaged Citizens!

It was nice to see this week's  Cascadia Weekly (5/25/11).  Three letters to the Editor, and all by TW members. 

First was TW co-initiator David Marshak's letter addressing the advertisements in local publications, and the inaccurate statements made in them by David Warren in support of…

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Added by David MacLeod on May 30, 2011 at 7:09pm — No Comments

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