HeyJaredDispatches from the Whirlwind
Articles from Mark and Paul Engler on social change, lessons from movement history, and how we can win.
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25 years after 9/11, how do we build a movement to stop endless wars? (opens the original)
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Remembering Wendell Berry—Agrarian, Writer, and Voice of Conscience (opens the original)
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Wendell Berry, the great agrarian, writer, and voice of conscience, has died. He was age 92, but he seemed immortal. Berry famously wrote his many works with pencil and paper. He had much to tell us both about how we interact with the technology that surrounds us and about the land from which we live.Back in 2004, when Berry was turning 70, I wrote an appreciation of his career for Grist magazine, with a focus on his politics and his essays on living a life with integrity:“In the 1970s, [Berry]
How “Medics for the People” Turns Health Care Into Organizing (opens the original)
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A key question that social movements have faced throughout history is how to convert services into organizing. In our latest article from the Whirlwind Institute, Senior Research Associate Joe Todd writes a great case study on this question. In How “Medics for the People” Turns Health Care Into Organizing, Joe looks at a project of the Workers’ Party of Belgium that has built up a network of health clinics throughout that country. These both provide high-quality care and are unabashed about
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