Here is a small but worthy and very doable action most people can do.
You know how customer service phone people ask you,” is there anything else I can do?” Before they hang up?
I say yes. And ask them if they are registered to vote. If not, are they citizens? And if no and yes, I encourage them to register. Share the benefits etc.
Last night I was on recreation.gov. The young guy was a citizen from tx but who wasn’t a registered voter. So I encouraged him.
What if more of us did this? We can move outside our own social bubbles and I think have a big impact.
I also did this to encourage people to attend no Kings.
Third Act and its partners are calling for local and national moratoria to stop the rapid, unchecked building of ‘hyperscale’ data centers, which are intended to accelerate speculative AI projects.
This 60-minute webinar will explore legal strategies local residents can effectively use to halt data center permitting and construction.
It's organized by Third Act, Public Citizen and Food and Water Watch. I used to canvas for Food and Water Watch, years and years ago, it was miserable work but they are very active and effective organizers.
What would the federal budget look like if every American taxpayer could decide where their money goes?
I've launched a grassroots national poll designed to answer that question-- not by analyzing our differences, but by discovering our commonalities as Americans.
No demographic data collected
No regional breakdowns or divisive analysis
Focus is purely on aggregate American preferences
Non-partisan approach to seeking common ground
I'm not asking about politics, demographics, or debating over federal responsibilities. This poll is one, single, simple question: If you could direct your tax dollars, what would you prioritize?
Harvard Professor Erica Chenoweth’s Pillar Strategy
Erica Chenoweth’s research highlights that nonviolent movements succeed by inducing defections within an opponent's "pillars of support"—institutions upholding the regime, such as economic elites, business leaders, media, and security forces. Targeting these pillars with economic pressure (strikes, boycotts) weakens regime loyalty, forcing structural change.
Key Aspects of Chenoweth’s Pillar Strategy:
• Definition: Pillars of support are the essential institutions (e.g., police, military, civil servants, media, organized labor, business leaders, educational systems) that maintain an authoritarian or unjust system.
• The Goal (Defection): Rather than directly attacking the regime, successful campaigns target these pillars to cause, in Chenoweth's term, "defections" - where key stakeholders stop supporting the leadership.
• Economic Tactics: Key actions include labor actions, consumer boycotts, and targeted pressure on economic elites and business leaders.
• Informed Pillar Strategy: Research suggests that identifying and focusing on the least loyal or most "low-hanging" pillars is more effective for small-to-medium movements than broad, random, or only massive mobilization.
• Disruptive Power: The goal is to break the perception that supporting the regime is in the best interest of these institutions.
The approach emphasizes that, while mass participation is crucial, specific, strategic action against the pillars of support is a more effective way to create, in Chenoweth's terms, a "cascade of defections".
A dynamic model of nonviolent resistance strategy - PMC
Here is a small but worthy and very doable action most people can do.
You know how customer service phone people ask you,” is there anything else I can do?” Before they hang up?
I say yes. And ask them if they are registered to vote. If not, are they citizens? And if no and yes, I encourage them to register. Share the benefits etc.
Last night I was on recreation.gov. The young guy was a citizen from tx but who wasn’t a registered voter. So I encouraged him.
What if more of us did this? We can move outside our own social bubbles and I think have a big impact.
I also did this to encourage people to attend no Kings.
planning on the May Day planning session
Here's something on April 20:
Stop the Madness: A Call for Data Center Moratoria
https://thirdact.org/events/stop-the-madness-a-call-for-data-center-moratoria/
Third Act and its partners are calling for local and national moratoria to stop the rapid, unchecked building of ‘hyperscale’ data centers, which are intended to accelerate speculative AI projects.
This 60-minute webinar will explore legal strategies local residents can effectively use to halt data center permitting and construction.
It's organized by Third Act, Public Citizen and Food and Water Watch. I used to canvas for Food and Water Watch, years and years ago, it was miserable work but they are very active and effective organizers.
What would the federal budget look like if every American taxpayer could decide where their money goes?
I've launched a grassroots national poll designed to answer that question-- not by analyzing our differences, but by discovering our commonalities as Americans.
No demographic data collected
No regional breakdowns or divisive analysis
Focus is purely on aggregate American preferences
Non-partisan approach to seeking common ground
I'm not asking about politics, demographics, or debating over federal responsibilities. This poll is one, single, simple question: If you could direct your tax dollars, what would you prioritize?
Help me find out the answers here: https://spendmytaxes.com/spending-survey/
Pull Down the Pillars
Harvard Professor Erica Chenoweth’s Pillar Strategy
Erica Chenoweth’s research highlights that nonviolent movements succeed by inducing defections within an opponent's "pillars of support"—institutions upholding the regime, such as economic elites, business leaders, media, and security forces. Targeting these pillars with economic pressure (strikes, boycotts) weakens regime loyalty, forcing structural change.
Key Aspects of Chenoweth’s Pillar Strategy:
• Definition: Pillars of support are the essential institutions (e.g., police, military, civil servants, media, organized labor, business leaders, educational systems) that maintain an authoritarian or unjust system.
• The Goal (Defection): Rather than directly attacking the regime, successful campaigns target these pillars to cause, in Chenoweth's term, "defections" - where key stakeholders stop supporting the leadership.
• Economic Tactics: Key actions include labor actions, consumer boycotts, and targeted pressure on economic elites and business leaders.
• Informed Pillar Strategy: Research suggests that identifying and focusing on the least loyal or most "low-hanging" pillars is more effective for small-to-medium movements than broad, random, or only massive mobilization.
• Disruptive Power: The goal is to break the perception that supporting the regime is in the best interest of these institutions.
The approach emphasizes that, while mass participation is crucial, specific, strategic action against the pillars of support is a more effective way to create, in Chenoweth's terms, a "cascade of defections".
A dynamic model of nonviolent resistance strategy - PMC
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9328538/