Writing
Medium: What To Do When The World Is Ending
March 3, 2022
So what do we do when the world is ending? The same things that so many of the giants on whose shoulders we stand did when their worlds were ending. We choose to face our despair — to walk towards it and through it — choose to take action, choose to build movements.
September 10, 2020
Winning is going to demand building an ecosystem of groups that are strong and healthy — groups that are here for the long haul. What follows is some tips to help build and maintain those types of organizations in these times.
Medium: Moving Toward Conflict for the Sake of Good Strategy
January 13, 2020
Our opposition has a strategy, and the stakes are high. We need to face our conflict avoidance in order to build the kind of movement that can win the world we all deserve.
Anti-Semitism, like any other system, can be undone. And people — including those of us who keep anti-Semitism alive whether intentionally or not — can transform. It is time, then, for Jews to step forward and lead this transformation.
Yotam Marom in dialogue with movement elder George Lakey, who believes that now - in the midst of deep crisis - is our best chance to make big progressive change.
Naomi Klein talks to an Occupy Wall Street organizer about using Occupy as a moment to dream big.
December 17, 2015
Occupy Wall Street created a new discourse, brought thousands of people into the movement, shifted the landscape of the left, and even facilitated concrete victories for working people. But at the same time, a substantial chunk of its leadership was allergic to power. And we made a politic of that.
The only thing that will beat Trump, overcome the right wing populist movement driving him, and outflank the neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party, is a genuinely left populist movement.
It wasn’t really until I was standing on the west side of Hoboken, N.J., in water and oil up to my thigh, that climate change really made sense.