Tag: politics

• Internet: R.I.P. Democracy?

  One of the hats I wear in grassroots organizing work is that of a facilitator. I’ve facilitated a lot of long strategy and planning meetings for different organizations and movement groups. Facilitators have a lot of little tools and tricks to help structure groups’ time together. One such tool/trick is the “parking lot”. Basically, if…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  August 31, 2012

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  communicative capitalism, democracy, ideas cemetery, Internet, Jodi Dean, politics, social media

• music and politics, real and retreat

  My recent visit to Barcelona happened to coincide with an amazing party at the biggest squat I have ever been to in my life. Seriously, the Can Masdeu is lord of all squats. It is big enough to eat all the other squats I’ve ever visited. The party was to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of…

  Jonathan Matthew Smucker

  June 23, 2012

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  Can Masdeu, group singing, Miles Horton, music, politics, primal, real, retreat, Spanish revolution