“Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing” — Glen’s 6 workshops cover these topics
Please see this summary of the topics I cover in these highly informative, practical, and inspiring workshops: Glen’s 6 Workshops Cover These Topics
Human Rights
Now it’s CONFIRMED: Trump SIGNIFICANTLY DID UNDERCOUNT MINORITIES in the 2020 census.
In the past few years I have posted several news reports of Trump’s DELIBERATE, RACIST, PARTISAN abuse of the 2020 census in order to undercount minorities and unfairly help the Republican Party. I have copied a few of them below — after THESE NEW CONFIRMED REPORTS that TRUMP DID INDEED SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERCOUNT MINORITIES. NEW INFORMATION in March 2020: A reliable source reported this on March 10, 2022: The 2020 Census missed 18.8 million Americans – the biggest net undercount in three decades. The Census Bureau said that while the overall population total of 323 million was accurate, it […]
The Poor People’s Campaign is excellent at the national level and our statewide level.
More and more non-profit organizations that work on important issues (peace, climate, human rights, economic justice, etc.) are aligning themselves with the Poor People’s Campaign. Some organizations are formally deciding to become “Mobilizing Partners.” Our Olympia Coalition to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, our statewide anti-nuclear coalition, 350 Seattle, several parts of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and many, many other organizations are doing this. This is a good way to work for economic justice, racial justice, and a range of issues. It is a good way for single-issue groups to make alliances with other organizations across issues and with diverse constituencies. […]
Let’s flip Texas’ S.B. 8 anti-abortion vigilante law to men who impregnate women without their explicit consent.
In 2021 Texas enacted into law S.B. 8. It prohibits abortion anywhere in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy. It delegates enforcement by deputizing ordinary individuals to sue abortion providers or anyone who “aids and abets” anyone getting an abortion in Texas. The law offers a $10,000 reward — plus legal fees — for anyone who wins their lawsuit. The law aggressively makes people vigilantes and bounty-hunters. The law has two main purposes: (1) Prevent abortions. (2) Harass and shut down any doctor, clinic, or other service who helps women get abortions. The law targets women. But a […]
Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing Creates Real Progress
This article explains why we can make significant progress on any of the issues we care about by organizing nonviolent grassroots movements: Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing Creates Real Progress
Bridging the gap between strategic and principled nonviolence
Some people think nonviolence is nice and ethical, but not strong enough to win results in the real world. Actually, “people-power” movements that are strictly nonviolent have been proven to be much more effective than movements that include some violence. Nonviolence is a powerful methodology, especially when the organizers develop savvy nonviolent strategies to activate their principles. See this article about bridging the gap between strategic and principled nonviolence Stellan Vinthagen’s 2015 book “A Theory of Nonviolent Action” develops a new theoretical framework for what nonviolence is. https://wagingnonviolence.org/rs/2019/05/stellan-vinathagen-book-theory-nonviolent-action-review/
Martin Luther King urged a “Radical Revolution of Values” — Learn about this here.
Our society and our whole world are in several serious crises all at once. Powerful forces keep making things worse. They want to intimidate us — to make us sit down and shut up so they can continue to oppress us. But better values do exist, and nonviolence is actually more powerful than The Establishment. (My free online workshop series “Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing” helps us understand and use nonviolence in clever, strategic ways.) Ever since the Civil Rights Movement’s era, I have appreciated Martin Luther King’s strong, bold, radical message and his methodology. I have read his books and studied […]
Martin Luther King recognized very serious problems, but he remained hopeful. We can be hopeful too — and keep pushing ahead!
The people reading this blog know a lot about the many problems — the many VERY SERIOUS problems — that endanger our world, our nation, and ourselves. It would be easy to sink into cynicism and despair. Powerful forces want us to do that and to give up. But even while Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., recognized the horrible problems, he remained hopeful that we can indeed solve the problems. We also need to stay hopeful — and stay strategically focused and active — until we win. I appreciate King’s “Testament of Hope.” It still sounds as relevant today […]
The U.S.’s “democracy” is seriously weakening!
The U.S. likes to think of itself as the best democracy in the world — and a beacon and role model for other nations. American politicians like to brag about this. But ACTUALLY, the U.S.’s democracy has been SERIOUSLY WEAKENING for a number of years — and in several ways. Our nation suffers many serious problems, but extremely rich people and big businesses profit from those problems (pollution, low wages, racial injustices, an out-of-control and constantly escalating war machine, elections that are dominated by Big Money, news media that favor the Establishment, Republicans’ many deliberate actions to cheat in elections […]
Let’s Recognize Legal Rights for Nature
The January 2022 episode of “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” provides a fresh perspective — and proposes a fresh solution — for some environmental problems that are serious but are not being solved by conventional methods. Glen Anderson interviewed two experts — Kai Huschke and Elliott Moffett — who have savvy insights and practical experience working to protect environments and establish legal rights for nature. Very often, when people want to protect the environment by filing appeals in governmental hearings or in courts, the environmentalists’ cases are dismissed because – even though the environment is being hurt – those individuals themselves are […]
Christmas Eve & New Year’s Eve: Yes, Olympia’s peace vigils occur as usual both Fridays!
Olympia’s weekly peace vigils occur all year around, regardless of holidays and regardless of weather! We warmly (!) invite you to join us FRI DEC 24 and FRI DEC 31 (and every Friday) from 4:30 to 6:00 (or as much of that time as you can spare) at the SW corner of 4th & Water downtown (across the street south from the Kissing Statue). (This is for 2021, and our vigils will continue every week in the future too.) I’ll bring a good, varied selections of signs, or you may bring your own. We support peace, human rights, nonviolence, […]
A holiday prose poem “Little Blue Top”
This was written by Doug Milholland, a savvy and compassionate peace organizer in Port Townsend, Washington: Little Blue Top
Poem about different treatments for rich vs. poor
They hang the man and flog the woman Who steal the goose from off the common But let the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves the lords and ladies fine Who take things that are yours and mine (17th century English?)
Sign up NOW for FREE, PRACTICAL ONLINE WORKSHOPS to help you make more progress on issues YOU care about
ALL OF US — new people, experienced organizers, and everybody in between — can STRENGTHEN OUR SKILLS and add resources to our “toolboxes” so we can make more progress in working on our issues. That’s why I’m offering my 6 FREE ONLINE WORKSHOPS. Please see information on the flyer I posted at this link – and SIGN UP NOW! 6 practical workshops on Grassroots Organizing — 2022 JAN-FEB — FLYER.docx Let’s build strong nonviolent grassroots movements that will significantly move public opinion — and change the dominant paradigms — and push governments, big businesses, mainstream media, and other entrenched entities to do […]
Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing Creates Light and Progress
Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing Creates Light and Progress Glen Anderson (360) 491-9093 glenanderson@integra.net The January 2022 theme for the Olympia-based publication Works In Progress (www.olywip.org) – “Where do we find light” – is a smart question to ask. I recommend finding light in two places: in ourselves and in the world around us. Contrary to the cynical assumption that human beings are inherently competitive and cruel (and contrary to the religious assumption that we’re doomed by “original sin”), powerful research affirms humans inherently want to cooperate and be good to each other. I read the book Humankind: A Hopeful History written […]