The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins is a cross between “Ender’s Game” and “Twilight”. A strong, independent teenage girl lives in an oppressive, post-apocalyptic earth. She ends up as a contestant in the Hunger Games, a yearly battle royale in which the Capital forces young people from it’s subjugated outer districts to kill each [...]
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Lessons Learned from the Hunger Games
Posted in books, organizing on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Magic Methods for Nonmagic Peoples
Posted in articles, organizing, tagged Harry Potter, NewOrganizing.com on July 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Learning happens everywhere, so why not from Harry Potter? New Organizing.com has a nicely written, well thought out top ten list for strategies we can all learn from Harry Potter. Number seven says: Respect the oddballs. When I was in 7th grade, there was a really nerdy boy and we called him Neville, which was [...]
Purpose and Tactics
Posted in articles, organizing on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tactics that had a big impact in the past (massive public demonstrations, boycotts, petitions, etc.) tend to come back over and over again. But as we’ve seen with the Tea Party Movement, tactics have very little connection to ideologies. I read this article on Newsweek.com. The gist of it is– a man owns a large stake [...]
