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All Blog Posts Tagged 'politics' (6)

George Lakoff to green marketers: use the F-word

UC Berkeley researcher and cognitive linguist riffs on "freedom" and other hot-button words for sustainability communicators. Anna Clark - theguardian.com, Tuesday 27 August 2013 14.00 EDT



If you lean progressive, then you've probably heard of George Lakoff, professor of cognitive science and linguistics at UC Berkeley and author of The New York Times bestseller, Don't Think of an Elephant! Notwithstanding his unabashed political slant, Lakoff's research is applicable for commercial… Continue

Added by Cromag on September 5, 2013 at 5:46pm — No Comments

The Diffusion of Protests

Excerpts from Koopmans, Ruud (2004) ‘Protest in time and space: the evolution of waves of contention’, in David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 19–46.

A simple repetition of past patterns of protest by dissidents is [...] unlikely to lead to such an exposure of political opportunities. Regimes have established ways of dealing with known types of protest and…

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Added by Cromag on May 1, 2013 at 1:16pm — No Comments

The Outsider's Guide to Supporting Nonviolent Resistance to Dictatorship

A few months ago, a group of experts on nonviolence from around the world gathered in New York to consider how those outside a country subject to dictatorship or repression might help those within it fighting for democracy.

The result was this document, a list of nonviolent techniques that can and have been used against repressive…

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Added by Cromag on November 13, 2012 at 4:51pm — No Comments

Jonathan Haidt Answers Your Questions About Morality, Politics, and Religion

“Morality, by its very nature, makes it hard to study morality,” writes the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. “It binds people together into teams that seek victory, not truth. It closes hearts and minds to opponents even as it makes cooperation and decency possible within…

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Added by Cromag on May 16, 2012 at 11:00am — No Comments

Why the Occupy Movement Frightens the Corporate Elite

Colonized by Corporations

By Chris Hedges

In Robert E. Gamer's book "The Developing Nations" is a chapter called "Why Men Do Not Revolt." In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often…

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Added by Cromag on May 14, 2012 at 7:00pm — No Comments

How Activists Organize (updated)

Watching the videos below, and exploring the additional materials and links, is a primer for understanding how seemingly powerless activists organize and affect widespread change.  One caveat is understanding elitism and the irony of democracy;  that changing status quo from one ruling class to another does not necessarily improve all conditions or eliminate oppression and corruption […

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Added by Cromag on February 21, 2011 at 6:30pm — No Comments

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