Fire John Pike.

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Saturday November 19, 2011 · 2:20 PM PST

2011/11/19 · 14:20

John Pike is the law enforcement thug behind such videos as:

This thug needs to be put on administrative leave immediately, and fired. Not allowed to resign. Not reassigned. Not forgiven. Fired. No pension, no dignity, just the end of his state-sanctioned thuggery.

OWS demands? This one is short.

HansNot

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Tuesday October 04, 2011 · 9:54 AM PDT

2011/10/04 · 09:54

Why not demand the resignation, effective immediately, of any politician who has accepted Koch money?

Daydreaming about a left-leaning data warehouse

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Friday August 05, 2011 · 11:37 AM PDT

2011/08/05 · 11:37

Sort of a wikipedia for progressive political action, covering both data/analysis and calls-to-action. All crowdsourced, all open, where you can see what's important and what you can do about it. I'd set it up like so:

Data:
* demographics for your city/county/state
* historical records, trends, projections
* important points of regional culture to be aware of

Public office:
* current office-holders
* historical records for office-holders
* - how popular were they?
* - what were the demographics at the time?
* - what did they run on, did it work, and did they follow through?

Private groups and associations:
* who's out there? who's in your region?
* what are they pushing?
* how do they get their message out?
* - do they employ dirty tricks?
* how successful are they?
* who funds them?
* who stands to benefit?

Media:
* who are the local/regional media players?
* who in the local media is sympathetic, i.e. who to contact for outreach?

Ideology:
* what are the important points in right-wing ideology?
* who are the thinkers behind these?
* who else is influential?
* what are the popular right-wing talking points?
* - what's wrong with these talking points (e.g. doesn't correspond to reality, doesn't treat human beings as human beings, violates social-contract ethics, and so on and so on)?
* - what's appealing about these talking points? why do people like/believe them?
* - what's right with these talking points? (hey, it could happen!)
* - concise rebuttals to talking points

What can I do?
* I have 5 minutes..
* I have 15 minutes..
* I have 60 minutes..
* - who can I call?
* - who can I email?
* - what can I say?

Thoughts? Comments? Anything like this already being done?

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