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Category: activism

  • Playing Offense

    We as a progressive movement are losing the argument. On issue after issue, we’re playing defense. – Sen. Al Franken (D) – MN (video of his full comments can be found below, as well as a link to the full text) There’s this old saying that defense wins championships. That may be true, but that…

  • Good Government is a Partnership, Not an Entitlement

    First, some definitions: Partnership: An association of people working together for common goals and aims for their benefit. Entitlement: A belief that one has a right to something with minimal or no contribution. — One persistent complaint that I hear about Memphis, from people who mostly live outside the city, is that the whole place…

  • Priorities

    This made the rounds of the internets last week, but I think it got lost in the shuffle of the long weekend. A Principal in Michigan sent a letter asking his Governor to turn his school into a prison… One solution I believe we must do is take a look at our corrections system in…

  • The “Anything But Jobs” Legislature

    There’s been a whole lot of stupid coming out of Nashville this year, but based on what bills are flowing through the General Assembly, we’ve only seen the appetizer. First on the list is Representative Debra Maggart. Following a line of Republican led disenfranchisement legislation, Maggart believes that your voter ID card, a document that…

  • The Next SCDP

    I guess I’m one of those people. I never give up. No matter how messed up something is, no matter how ineffective, my default setting is…“it can be fixed”. This Saturday, the second part of the SCDP re-organization will happen. On March 26th over 350 faithful Democrats came out to begin the process by electing…

  • Getting Involved is Easy, If You Let It

    You may think that City government, or County government, or even state government doesn’t matter. You may think that it’s too hard to keep up with what’s going on locally. While the local news of the day may not be splashed across the first five minutes of the national news, or on the 24 hr…