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Energy (and Other) Events – July 2022

July 1, 2022 By gmoke

**Index** **Lecture Series** Announcing our Flourish Fiction Summer Workshop Series 2022! Prompt Generation Workshop – July 6, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT Infinite Hope: Imagining a Better World – July 20, 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT Open Feedback … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: climate, ecology, economics, eduction, energy, environment, events, learning, listings, politics, renewables, sustainability

Thorstein Veblen on Leisure Class Government

June 22, 2022 By gmoke

from The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen Mineola, NY: Dover, 1994 [originally published 1899] (ISBN 0-486-28062-4) (page 49) So, those offices which are by right the proper employment of the leisure class are noble; … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: democracy, economics, government, politics, public-opinion, sociology, Thorstein Veblen

Massie Receives Endorsements in Run-up to Party Chair Election

November 11, 2020 By roborig

A number of groups and individuals have signaled their support for Bob Massie to be the next Chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party. The Party’s Democratic State Committee will vote on Thursday, November 12th. Jamie Eldridge, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bob-massie, boston-globe, CD 1, democratic-party, MAPA, mapoli, Mass Dems, massachusetts, Mayor Alex Morse, pda, pdm, politics, Rep Richard Neal, the Intercept

Bob Massie: Building Our Future Together (& Update!)

November 7, 2020 By roborig

From Bob Massie: Just a month ago I was drafted to run by a group of concerned State Committee members and long-time activists. Though I immediately started calling people, I also did something that neither of the other two candidates … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bob-massie, democratic-party, mapoli, Mass Dems, massachusetts, politics

Bob Massie is running for Chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party

November 3, 2020 By roborig

Dear Fellow Democrats and Members of the State Committee,I am writing to announce that I will be seeking the position of Chair of our State Democratic party on November 12, 2020.Though the chair’s race is extremely important because it will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: bob-massie, democratic-party, mapoli, Mass Dems, massachusetts, politics

Is Patrick O’Connor the Progressive State Senator We’ve Been Waiting For?

July 1, 2020 By Meg Wheeler

Editor's note: Meg Wheeler is running for State Senate in the Plymouth and Norfolk District. -- CB  When the world woke up on Wednesday, November 9, 2016, it felt as though there’d been a seismic shift. For too many of us, our belief … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 2020, bmg, massachusetts, massachusetts-state-senate, politics, state-senate-race

Meet Middlesex DA Candidate DONNA PATALANO

May 1, 2018 By jordan3weinstein

Donna Patalano is a progressive criminal justice reformer who is mounting a primary challenge to Democratic incumbent Marian Ryan in the 2018 race for District Attorney in Massachusetts' Middlesex County.  This event is designed to give … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: #massincarceration, 2018 state primary, criminal justice reform, elections, police, politics, progressive-politics-and-policy

The Politics of PT Barnum

September 10, 2016 By gmoke

Phineas Taylor (PT) Barnum was not only a show business producer and early mass marketeer but also a politician. He was elected to two terms in the Connecticut state legislature (1865 and 1866) representing the town of Fairfield as a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 14thAmendment, CivilWar, connecticut, history, politics, PTBarnum, railroads

Money in Politics – Grassroots Org Urges Commonwealth to Lead the Nation

May 13, 2016 By PassMassAmendment

  Press Release May 12, 2016 - For Immediate Release - PassMassAmendment press contacts: Gina Sonder & Nick Bokron, pasmassamendmentpsa at gmail dot com; 781-715-7822   A grassroots group attempting to get BIG MONEY OUT of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: #PassMassAmend, constitutional-amendments, constitutional-convention-–-wednesday, ken-donnelly, ma-gov, mapoli, money-in-politics, pma, politics, rep-paul-mark, S-53, state-rep

Zero Emissions Economy to Reversing Global Warming

October 1, 2015 By gmoke

Meteor Blades recently (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/28/1425368/-Open-thread-for-night-owls-Mobilizing-for-the-climate-crisis) wrote about The Climate Mobilization (http://www.theclimatemobilization.org) which is asking people to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: carbon farming, climate-change, economics, greenhouse-gases, politics, Rescued, zero-emissions

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