Karen Young
Bushwick compost group has unique climate strategy
Welcome to Team Tuesday! In a wonderful story about the great community composting battle in New York, Civil Eats highlights a group in...
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Karen Young
- Jul 16
- 4 min
Democratic Party: what leadership failure looks like
Welcome to SWOT Sunday! There’s existential conflict right now within the Democratic Party and its supporter base. Just when clarity and...
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Karen Young
- Jul 11
- 1 min
Westchester village has creative strategy for zero waste
Here’s a cheerful story for Team Tuesday. Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, a village in suburban Westchester County, has a fun way to...
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Karen Young
- Jul 2
- 2 min
Vermont State Labor Council United: bloodied, but unbowed
Welcome to Team Tuesday! Back in March, I brought you the story about the great organizers who created an insurgent group called United,...
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Karen Young
- Jun 24
- 10 min
Climate power strategy: work with “eco right” and “eco middle”
The left must be open to working with a broad range of people with whom we have some alignment, if we want power: power to win hearts...
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Karen Young
- Jun 19
- 1 min
American Climate Corps reports for duty
Welcome to Team Tuesday! Happy to report that the first class of American Climate Corps (ACC) workers started the swearing-in process...
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Karen Young
- Jun 18
- 11 min
The two-party system is collapsing. What’s next?
Welcome to SWOT Sunday! Note, long read! You can always come back to finish. Both the Democratic and Republican parties are riven with...
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Karen Young
- Jun 12
- 2 min
Waffle House workers fight – and win
Welcome to Winning Wednesday! Waffle House workers have been making a lot of noise through the Union of Southern Service Workers,...
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Karen Young
- Jun 5
- 2 min
Amazon Labor Union and Teamsters Come For Amazon
Welcome to Winning Wednesday! The Amazon Labor Union, a plucky band of Amazon workers at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York City,...
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Karen Young
- May 28
- 2 min
MO interns get $1 million out to homeless students
Welcome to Take Action Tuesday! From the Missouri Independent, via News From The States, comes a story of three legislative interns,...
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Karen Young
- May 14
- 2 min
Rick Weiland ditches damaged Democrat brand, wins progressive causes with ballot measures
Welcome to Team Tuesday! I learned about Mr. Weiland from a story in the South Dakota Searchlight, via News From the States – an...
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Karen Young
- May 13
- 5 min
Progressive search for “bigger we” needs bigger view of poverty
Welcome to SWOT Sunday! As usual, the words “poverty” or “poor people” aren’t being uttered by Presidential candidates or, generally, by...
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Karen Young
- May 7
- 2 min
Fair Food Program helps keep farmworkers cool
Welcome to Team Tuesday! You may have heard about the GOP’s current drive to ban regulations requiring employers to protect farmworkers...
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Karen Young
- May 1
- 1 min
UAW leads progressives to think big – as in a general strike
Welcome to Take Action Tuesday! The new UAW, more than any other organization on the left, THINKS BIG. They swing for the fences. We...
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Karen Young
- Apr 26
- 4 min
Convergence brings “Left strategy for the MAGA era”
Welcome to Team Tuesday! Convergence, “a magazine for radical insights,” is poised to play an important role in furthering the alignment...
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Karen Young
- Apr 15
- 3 min
Bridging The Divide Between Rural/Urban America
Last week I attended a conference at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago. It was called “Bridging the Divide: Forging...
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Karen Young
- Mar 13
- 3 min
20+ progressive groups join forces to Reject AIPAC
Welcome to Team Tuesday! I’m always excited when I see progressive groups working together, because that’s one of the most critical...
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Karen Young
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Covering the stakes, not the odds: good news for progressives
Welcome to Message Monday! It’s no wonder we have so many corrupt and idiotic people in office, when the media is so deeply committed to...
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Karen Young
- Mar 11
- 6 min
Strong culture could help progressives win big
Welcome to SWOT Sunday! Last week, we talked about how conflict avoidance within an organization causes many problems, especially with...
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Karen Young
- Mar 5
- 2 min
Progressive Unionism 2.0: Vermont AFL-CIO United
Welcome to Team Tuesday! Today we have the story from Jacobin of how an intrepid band of union reformers transformed the Vermont State...
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