Ted's Columns
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(Is There) Proof of Heaven? - May 6, 2013
Hunger Strike on 27th Day - April 27, 2013
The 1% Support Democrats—What Else is New? - April 3, 2013
Are We Winning the Clean vs. Dirty Energy Battle? - March 24, 2013
Obama: “All-of-the-Above” Again and Again - March 17, 2013
Our Lunch Counter Moment - Feb. 18, 2013
No Fracking, No Fracking Pipelines - March 7, 2013
Big Steps Forward for US Climate Movement - February 5, 2013
Lincoln, the “Third Party” President - January 12, 2013
Promised Land, a movie review - January 5, 2013
Giving All to the Present - December 18, 2012
The Fierce Urgency of Now - December 13, 2012
Acting Before It Is Too Late - November 19, 2012
Obama, Climate, History - November 7, 2012
Superstorm Sandy - October 30, 2012
America the Possible: a book review - October 21, 2012
Will Obama’s Poll Decline Finally Break the Silence on Climate? - October 18, 2012
Occupy and the Next Big Thing - September 24, 2012
Larry Gibson, Appalachian hero - September 13, 2012
Albany Action a Big Boost to No-Fracking Movement - August 28, 2012
Strategic Presidential Voting - August 19, 2012
Needed: A Third Force - August 10, 2012
Rebuilding the Dream Through the Democratic Party? - July 22, 2012
Stop Fracking, Heal the Planet - July 17, 2012
We Need a Green New Deal Now! - June 25, 2012
Fracking, Climate Action and July 28 - June 19, 2012
An International “Occupy” Manifesto - May 17, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Lives! - May 2, 2012
The Moral and Climate Crises - April 28, 2012
From Me to We, a Book Review - April 15, 2012
Tipping Points, Climate and Political - March 31, 2012
For Rachel Carson - March 17, 2012
Discovering Prayer in the Climate Movement - March 3, 2012
Fracking, Obama and the 2012 Debate - February 20, 2012
Uniting the 99%, Part 2 - February 12, 2012
Uniting the 99% - January 29, 2012
How Great Thou Art - January 9, 2012
Why Isn’t There a More Massive, Activist Climate Movement? - December 29, 2011
Movement-Building and 2012 - December 4, 2011
Reasons for Thanks Giving - November 18, 2011
Is the Pipeline Victory a Turning Point for the Climate Movement? - November 13, 2011
Encircling the White House: A New Beginning is Here - November 7, 2011
The Power of the People, Organized - November 2, 2011
November 6: More Than Just the Climate Movement? - October 27, 2011
Revolution in the Air - October 16, 2011
The Occupy Movement, Winning Victories and November 6 - October 10, 2011
Troy Davis and the Acceptance of Sacrifice - September 25, 2011
Eric Mann’s Playbook for Progressives: a book review - September 11, 2011
First Ozone Standards, Now This? - September 9, 2011
The Tar Sands Action (smile) - September 6, 2011
It’s REALLY Step It Up Time on the Tar Sands - August 20, 2011
Mass Movements in the USA Today - August 16, 2011
Tropic of Chaos: A Book Review - July 29, 2011
2011’s Most Important Electoral Campaign - July 10, 2011
Youth and Positive Social Change - June 26, 2011
A Powerful March on Blair Mountain - June 13, 2011
Tim DeChristopher and the March on Blair Mountain - May 29, 2011
Religion and Revolution - May 8, 2011
Not So Starry-Eyed Anymore - April 20, 2011
Movement-Building and the 2012 Presidential Campaign - April 3, 2011
Global Heating Causes Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Volcanic Eruptions - March 20, 2011
Bobby Sands, Presente! - March 13, 2011
Appalachia Keeps Rising - February 28, 2011
On Revolutionary Leadership and Mass Action - February 13, 2011
Only Civil Disobedience? - February 1, 2011
World on the Edge, a book review - January 16, 2011
The Third Force Idea - January 10, 2011
New Year Thoughts: On Our Own - January 2, 2011
The True Story of Pocohontas - November 28, 2010
What Now? - November 6, 2010
Spartacus, 2010 - October 30, 2010
Learning from the Tea Party - October 24, 2010
Appalachia Rises; Let's Do the Same - October 3, 2010
WE Are the "Yes We Can" Leaders - September 12, 2010
Rethinking Gandhi - August 22, 2010
Don't Let Up, Fight Harder - August 12, 2010
Remember Sasha and Malia! - July 23, 2010
Three Months, Three Years - July 11, 2010
Post Social Forum Thoughts - July 2, 2010
News Flash: Tens of Millions in USA Like Idea of "Socialism" - June 6, 2010
Will the BP Oil Spill Be the Spark? - May 23, 2010
Al Gore, Bill McKibben and the Urgency of Now - May 9, 2010
The Bolivian Government: "Mother Earth or Barbarism" - April 27, 2010
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - April 11, 2010
Political Strategy, Macro and Micro - March 28, 2010
Climate Legislation, Science and Activism - March 14, 2010
Principles, Program, Strategy, Tactics - March 1, 2010
Climate and Political Tipping Points - February 15, 2010
Following Howard Zinn - February 1, 2010
Upping the Ante on Climate - January 17, 2010
Christmas and Copenhagen - December 21, 2009
Copenhagen - December 13, 2009
Hungering for Climate Justice - November 7, 2009
We’re “On Our Own” - November 14, 2009
The Power of the People - October 31, 2009
Gandhi Today - October 2, 2009
Copenhagen: Turning Point or More of the Same Old Same Old? - September 20, 2009
Two Million at Rightwing March? - September 14, 2009
Can We Make It? - August 29, 2009
Health Care, Climate and the Progressive Movement - August 16, 2009
James Lovelock and the End Times - August 3, 2009
If You Want a Revolution, Start With a Clean Energy One - July 11, 2009
We Need More Than ACES - June 27, 2009
Contesting on Occupied Terrain - June 16, 2009
Science-Based, Not Scare, Tactics on Climate - June 6, 2009
It Isn't Nice - May 17, 2009
Don't Worry, "We've got 41 Years" - May 9, 2009
A Sincere Prayer - April 19, 2009
Rev. Wright and Rev. Pinkney - April 11, 2009
Is "Washington" Winning? - March 29, 2009
Our 2009 Targets: Congress and Coal - March 6, 2009
Let the Clean Energy Revolution Begin - February 15, 2009
Third Party Organizing Under Obama - February 1, 2009
Obama and Coal - January 19, 2009
Che and Gaza - January 4, 2009
Christmas Time Reflections - December 21, 2008
Don't Just Mourn, Escalate! - December 7, 2008
Follow The Money - November 23, 2008
Obama Wins: Will the People? - November 5, 2008
Making a Green Revolution - October 19, 2008
Fossil Fuel Independence Now - October 5, 2008
Science Fiction to Save the World - September 21, 2008
240, Not Just 60, Days - September 7, 2008
Two-Party Conventions and Social Change - August 24, 2008
Is Obama’s Energy Plan Change We Can Believe In? - August 18. 2008
Obama, McCain, Green Jobs and Climate Solutions
- August 7, 2008
The Wheel Turns - July 14, 2008
Prioritizing Climate - June 23, 2008
No Easy Victories - June 14, 2008
By 2030: Only Renewable Energy - May 31, 2008
Mazzocchi, Speth and Capitalism's Future - May 18. 2008
Obama and Wright: Differing Worldviews - May 2, 2008
Martin Luther King, Presente - April 29, 2008
Much More Than a Dream - April 8, 2008
Let's Intensify Spring Anti-War Actions - March 23, 2008
March 19th: Winter Into Spring - March 7, 2008
Obama, Clinton, McKinney and Nader - March 3, 2008
Non-Electoral Activism in a Presidential Election Year - February 17, 2008
Obama vs. Clinton: A Second Thought - February 2, 2008
No War, No Warming Round Two - January 26, 2008
Obama vs. Clinton: What's the Beef? - January 13, 2008
Ending the 2007 Fast - December 21, 2007
The Non-Solutions to the Climate Crisis - December 16, 2007
Hitting Back, Nonviolently - December 9, 2007
Only One Life - November 25, 2007
Fasting and Victories - November 15, 2007
We Want More - November 7, 2007
No Just Our Minds and Hearts But Our Bodies - October 14, 2007
Bad Week for Bush on Climate - September 30, 2007
The Nonviolent Army, Revisited Again - September 23, 2007
A Decisive Fall Season - September 1, 2007
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