The Forest Voice was a widely nationally distributed newsmagazine in the 1990’s that carried the plight of west coast ancient forests all over the country. It was noted for no compromise hair-raising graphics and articles characteristic of the Zerocut faction of the Ancient Forest community.
The Bankhead Monitor was a 1990’s publication from Alabama which waged an all, out -no holds barred unrelenting attack, often personal on the Government agencies and managers who were trying to clear cut the Bankhead National Forest. It set a high bar for media that mobilizes and arouses public opinion in defense of our public …
Today, the betting markets predict Biden and Trump will be the presidential candidates and Trump will win. The House and Senate are too close to call pending state redistricting map cases, but all three branches of government may be under Trump’s control in 15 months. Unlike the sloppy, shambolic transition planning the last time Trump …
– Sleepwalking into MAGA’s 2025 Public Land Plans Pt 1. Read More »
PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today, Grog, the esteemed leader of the Rock Smashers tribe, issued a call to all tribal leaders to consider a moratorium on the use of fire for the next six moons. Grog’s appeal comes in response to the recent discovery of fire by the Flint Finders tribe and the potential dangers …
The blog 3 QUARKS is running extracts from Jim’s next book. Here is the first. Wise words from 50 years of managing political and environmental campaigns, and doing staff work in all kinds of settings from a Cabinet secretary’s front office to local planning boards. 10 proverbs on Politics When someone says, “I’m not getting …
WHY DOES YOUR TOWN NEED LAND-USE ADVOCACY? In many urban areas today, just driving to the store for milk is a time-consuming hassle; communities nationwide are disfigured by nearly identical vistas of Taco Bells, McDonalds, Dollar Stores and Dairy Queens. This overdevelopment and sprawl has resulted in part from citizens not being involved in community …
– HANDBOOK: HOW TO STOP BAD PROJECTS IN YOUR COMMUNITY Read More »
Every grassroots campaign needs a basic call-to-action that clearly and dramatically summarizes your issue. You cannot have a serious campaign without one. Your alert should be compelling, well-written, accurate, and persuasive; and must contain a wealth of information condensed into one page. Your alert should give a brief background explaining what you want people to …
– EFFECTIVE CAMPAIGNS USE ONE-PAGE ALERTS & SIGN-ON LETTERS Read More »
Neoliberalism, embraced mostly by and for rich people, naturally would have local, financially interested people play a vital role in arriving at decisions about the business use of public assets. The Alinsky approach tries to ensure that people with vested financial interests and rampant conflicts-of-interest are completely excluded from deciding the outcome of federal land …
– Why Polluter’s Victims Hate Enviros More Than Polluters Read More »
There are some larger and little discussed issues around the growing trend that seeks to resolve all conflict with partnerships, roundtables, win-win and consensus processes. These approaches have not just suddenly appeared in a vacuum. America’s fundamental assumptions about the political decision-making process itself are being systematically reshaped by a new political theory called neoliberalism, …
– What Al Capone, Saul Alinsky’s Mentor, Taught Him Read More »
When the laws regulating forest practices, endangered species, clean air, and water were put on the books, it was well before the 1990s when our society became enthralled with neoliberalism which elevated economic utility and job creation above all in matters of public policy. Public resource managers now face local political pressure to base every …