Celebrations

“You can tell the caliber of an organisation by the quality of its celebrations.”

Saul Alinsky

Transforming Shadow Into Rocket Fuel

A very unexpected talk from Jamie Catto – a music producer with a string of fantastic projects like this one…

• Unity through the experience of music
• Relationships are transformational to how we experience the world
• Shadow – collective shame, pain and insanity that we carry

Link Loving 24.03.12

• 38 Degrees members are going to be signing up their street to the Big Energy Switch. James Rees.
• Another ‘Not Guilty’ verdict for UK Uncut. Adam Ramsay.
• What campaigners can learn from the abolition of slavery. Max Lawson.
• Revenge of the pensioners – down with the Granny Tax. Political Scrapbook.
• Stonewall uses Facebook’s Timeline feature to tell the story of equal rights for LGBT community in Britain. Brilliant.
• Can Occupy have a diversity of tactics? Nathan Schneider.

Blessed Unrest: Just Like The Industrial Revolution

Paul Hawken explains that the Industrial Revolution went unnamed for more than a century after the process began, ‘in part because its development did not fit conventional categories, but also because no-one could define what was taking place, even though it was evident everywhere.’

Same thing is happening now.

h/t Phil Moore

Link Loving 23.03.12

• Who wants to run the world? Megan Erickson.
• The tutu project. Touching and amusing in equal measure.
• The power of dilemma demonstrations. Brilliant post on a great tactic. George Lakey.
• Ken Butigan remembers his brother Larry. Powerful story.
• Some lessons on art and campaigning. Holly Hammond.
• Natalya Sverjensky discovers some more greenwash detective-work worth reading.

The Solution To Congo’s Problems

Falling Whistles does it again – fantastic. Compare this to KONY 2012…

Shake The Dust

Link Loving 22.03.12

• Eight lessons about money that Penelope Trunk learned from her family.
• Totnes takes the offensive. Fantastic stuff. Rob Hopkins.
• How China gets the internet to censor itself. Jason Q. Ng.
• Taking the revolutionary to the every day – stories from Nigeria. Tolulope Ilesanmi.
• Free 3-day media training for women activists.

If You Want Your Idea To Spread – Do This

Better than yet another Executive Summary, no?

A Budget For The 1%

Amidst the interest rate spin, tax breaks for the super-rich and anti-green infrastructure policies, the Chancellor committed us to another year of austerity, despite its crippling effects on our economy and society. It’s the economic equivalent of medieval medicine, bleeding a sick, weak patient in the hope of making them better.

New Economics Foundation gets it right. Now look at the graph below – especially the green section for the UK…