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Policing Identity or Building Power?
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Arlene Goldbard urges you to read Asad Haider’s book, Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump, a masterful guide to what’s not working in progressive political culture and why.
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The Performance of Privilege and Unmerited Overconfidence
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Arlene Goldbard skips over the Big Baby in the White House to explore even more powerful examples of the impact of privilege and entitlement on our common culture.
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A Restless Art: Read This Book
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Arlene Goldbard writes that if you are an artist, funder, organizer, or simply interested in learning from a community arts practitioner who is also a brilliant and accessible scholar, download or buy A Restless Art by Francois Matarasso, who argues that participatory art has become normal, widespread, and in fact a watershed in the history of the arts.
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Vengeance, Forgiveness, and The Culture of Politics
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Arlene Goldbard asks: when bad acts surface in the public sphere, who are we as a people? Those who can be satisfied only when their opponents are destroyed? Or those whose compass points to healing and repair and away from vengeance? T’shuvah points the way.
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Howard Schultz and The Challenge of Class Suicide
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What interests Arlene Goldbard most is not handicapping Schultz’s chances or joining the legions exhorting him not to run, but getting to the root of his absurd ambitions, which is to say the root of our plutocracy and its kudzu-like grip on the body politic.
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What Was I Thinking?
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Arlene Goldbard shares a story of how, more than twenty years ago, after drawing or painting nearly every day from the time she could hold a crayon, she stopped making visual art.
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The Positive Power of Thinking The Unthinkable
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Arlene Goldbard writes that the danger is real. Answering it requires accepting the hard truth that our challenge isn’t more persuasive messaging to convert the few now dismantling democracy for profit. It’s to accept their choice and invest ourselves in gathering the many who love freedom and justice.