January 15, 2012

Heh, indeed.

A million could do it

A problem with a list of great organizers is that is the bench is so deep that there is no good place to stop. It has me wondering how big the committee might be.

But seriously, who owns the list? If the answer is nobody, we have only ourselves to blame. Get one million on the committee and the turf is manageable. Are there 100,000 organizers? 10,000? I don’t know. My bet would be on the low end, but the point is that you’d expect organizers to get it together to make a list.

Can you imagine it? One million organizers knocking on 120 million doors and putting together one million meetings. That’s how we get to democracy.

January 14, 2012

Great organizers I have met, an absurdly incomplete list (in no particular order (except for Sanjay))

  • Sanjay Garla
  • Trip McCrossin
  • Mark Dilley
  • Janella James
  • Bill Ayers
  • Urmila Venkatesh
  • Dave Cecil
  • Sara Lanius
  • Jon Curtiss
  • Brooke Anderson
  • Brenda Carter
  • Cedric DeLeon
  • Cathleen McCann
  • Mark Bostic
  • Karen Miller
(possibly a better title would be, ‘great organizers I have learned from’ though even then the list would be embarrassingly incomplete)

January 6, 2012

Heh, indeed.

January 5, 2012

Heh, indeed.

QOTD:

I will go to the NAACP convention and tell the African-American community why they should demand paychecks instead of food stamps.
Newt Gingrich

January 3, 2012

Heh, indeed.

Heh, indeed.

January 2, 2012

QOTD:

Changes in income from capital gains and dividends were the single largest contributor to rising income inequality between 1996 and 2006.
Thomas L. Hungerford, Congressional Research Service, ‘Changes in the Distribution of Income Among Tax Filers 1996-2006: The Role of Labor Income, Capital Income, and Tax Policy’ (pdf)

December 29, 2011

QOTD:

…for what we spent on Iraq since 2003, we could have given every Iraqi the equivalent of their share of GDP every year until now, and it would have cost about the same as what we spent.