Thought, Analysis, Care, Regulation, & Escape
I worked in US Democratic, Progressive, Issue, and Ballot Measure campaigns, elections and organizing for 32 years. I have a lot of opinions, feelings, and thoughts about the past week, past year, past 8 years, past 30 years, past 75 years. But this is not that newsletter. Not today.
Your Role In This Moment
Deepa Iyer and Building Movement Project shared the Social Change Map in the 2017 moment for individuals, and organizations, to identify what role we are best suited to play, or want to play. We do NOT have to be everything in this moment.
Context and Perspective
My favorite, Haymarket Books, is offering 10 E-Books for Getting Free until next week. Download them now and read as you are ready!
AK Press is offering 6 free e-books for this moment. I have re-read Emergent Strategy over years so grab that and the others before the free period ends in a few days.
Newsletters I Recommend
Entertainment, Weekly by Patrick Nathan
In Retrospect by Frederick Joseph
Abortion, Every Day by Jessica Valenti
The Unpopulist by Shikha Dalmia and the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarians
For Our Youngest Ones
Care For Ourselves in the Days, Months & Years Ahead
November TV Premieres
Bad Sisters (Apple) - November 13 Season 2: Loved season 1 - great cast and def a vibe for these times. Who knows what the sisters will be getting into this season!
Say Nothing (FX/ Hulu) - November 14: Based on the excellent and critically acclaimed book of the same name by Patrick Radden Keefe, this new series takes place over 40 years during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Interior Chinatown (Hulu) - November 19: Based on the also excellent and critically acclaimed book of the same name by Charles Yu, this new series is about Hollywood, the stories it tells, and how we see ourselves because of it.
A Man on the Inside (Netflix) - November 21: Starring Ted Danson and created by The Good Place and Brooklyn 99 teams, this new series is inspired by the Oscar Nominated documentary, the Mole Agent, in which an 80+ year old man become an undercover agent in a nursing home.