New Orleans Gene Sharp was not well-known, except where it mattered, and that was among the groups of activists here and abroad who tried to strategize about how to make change when faced with oppressive, often dictatorial, governments against amazing odds. He wrote a shelf full of books about nonviolence. Evangelizing, theorizing, and advising on …
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Kicking Them When They’re Down
Boston Around Boston, this is their time of the year. Another Super Bowl football extravaganza, and once again, yawn, the New England Patriots are in the big show. The Boston Globe sports section was full of comparisons of future Hall of Famer Tom Brady’s matchup with recent backup quarterback Nick Foles for the Philadelphia …
Trump Uses State of Disunion Speech to Take Shots at Workers
Springfield President Trump came into his first State of the Union speech marking the end of his first year in office with the lowest level of popular support for his job performance in modern times with only 37% of the American people approving his work according to polls. Perhaps unsurprisingly he used the opportunity to …