{"id":12950,"date":"2012-11-18T20:52:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=12950"},"modified":"2012-11-18T20:52:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T01:52:35","slug":"now-what-the-long-term-work-of-bending-the-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/11\/18\/now-what-the-long-term-work-of-bending-the-arc\/","title":{"rendered":"Now What? The long-term work of bending the arc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Progressive Massachusetts<\/em> has the article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivemass.com\/2\/2012\/11\/15\/now-what-the-long-term-work-of-bending-the-arc\/\" title=\"Progressive Massachusetts article\" target=\"_blank\">Now What? The long-term work of bending the arc<\/a><\/strong> by Harmony Wu.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Grassroots power is not turned on and off and back on again with a switch, at a moment\u2019s notice. To truly build an effective movement, one that mobilizes true change, it takes long-term organizing, work, relationship-building, and collaboration with others who share our common goals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What if getting better government and policies meant not just an every couple-of-years high-intensity short-term election push?<\/li>\n<li>What if we worked on a slower burn, sustained and over time?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have power; let\u2019s focus it and put it to use!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>This is the very issue that the Elizabeth Warren campaign volunteers in the Brimfield\/Southbridge\/Sturbridge area are struggling with right now.  We are planning to at least meet often to keep the group together for just the reasons cited in Harmony Wu&#8217;s piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive Massachusetts has the article Now What? The long-term work of bending the arc by Harmony Wu. The article concludes with the following: Grassroots power is not turned on and off and back on again with a switch, at a moment\u2019s notice. To truly build an effective movement, one that mobilizes true change, it takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12951,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12950\/revisions\/12951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}