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A letter to John Kerry on the Keystone pipeline and civil disorder..
Archive for the ‘Organizing’ Category
April 21st, 2013
December 24th, 2012
A survey on American attitudes to climate change consistently gives self-contradictory results.
December 31st, 2011
Category: 501(c)(3), charity, Good news, Higher education, Human rights, Law Notes, Management, Music, NonProfits, Organizing, Philanthropy, Religion and Politics, Think Tanks, Uncategorized
Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits by Lesley Rosenthal (John Wiley & Sons 2012) As I embarked on writing Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits, well-meaning and concerned folks cited at least three reasons why no one had written such a book before, and (implicitly) why I shouldn’t try: it’s too [...]
December 20th, 2011
The most powerful argument in this LA Times op-ed piece opposing the charitable tax deduction is that it’s a poor trade-off. Retired foundation executive Jack Shakely points out that charities have permitted themselves to be shorn of their ability to influence policy and politics in return for a mess of pottage. Of course the restrictions [...]
November 16th, 2011
OWS is losing public support, [correction: polling numbers ungarbled 16/XI] to 33 for-45 opposed from 35F-36O a month ago. The project is suffering from a variety of problems mostly related to the lack of focus and leadership that appeared to its adherents as a virtue when it began. This doesn’t mean it shouldn’t have happened, [...]
October 26th, 2011
Let’s put it plainly. The demands of Occupy Wall Street are both valid and popular. The people occupying Wall Street are total flakes. The second fact in no way discredits the first. The people in Zuccotti Park aren’t the best people to carry forth their message—but they don’t need to be. They’ve already catalyzed others to do the job.
July 2nd, 2010
If the New York Times editoral board really wants to get rid of female genital cutting, then it needs to understand the actual work going on in the Global South.