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Showing videos filed under: grassroots
Kai Wright: Outside Action Moved DADT, DREAM Act
December 21, 2010This weekend saw critical votes on Don't Ask Don't Tell and the DREAM Act--one victory and one defeat for progressives. Kai Wright of ColorLines notes that it was grassroots organizing and militant activism that brought both these bills to the point of passage. "In the end it's the outside that moves people. Literally outside the White House, chained to the fence, or DREAM act students hunger striking," he notes.Kai Wright, Political Humor, and Coming Out Against War
December 20, 2010This weekend saw critical votes on Don't Ask Don't Tell and the DREAM Act--one victory and one defeat for progressives. Kai Wright of ColorLines notes that it was grassroots organizing and militant activism that brought both these bills to the point of passage. "In the end it's the outside that moves people. Literally outside the White House, chained to the fence, or DREAM act students hunger striking," he notes.Marshall Ganz and Sally Kohn: The Future of Community Organizing
April 18, 2009Sally Kohn, Director of the Movement Vision Lab at the Center for Community Change and Marshall Ganz, a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government discuss lessons for organizers from the Obama campaign as well as the challenges and opportunities grassroots activists face when a candidateCreating a Mandate: An Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel
November 6, 2008Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation Magazine, says that the progressive left must create a new mandate and that now is the time to be bold. There has been a generational and perhaps an ideological shift and the old order is dead. The grassroots, movement politics that helped to elect Barack Obama will be even more important now.Changing the Platform: Healthcare not Warfare
August 27, 2008“We will not fix the health care crisis by selling more for profit private health insurance,” says Donna Smith, Co-Chair of the Healthcare Not Warfare Campaign and a member of Progressive Democrats of America. Though most Americans support single payer healthcare language guaranteeing healthcare for everyone was absent from the Party’s platform.
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