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In reply to the discussion: He said "make me do it" so they showed up to make him, but were arrested. [View all]Chathamization
(1,638 posts)There are a number of good groups at the local level, but there doesn't seem to be a great amount of coordination. If someone was to ask me what group to join if they wanted to get involved in activism, I'd probably give them a list of a number of groups (such as DFA, OFA, WFP, maybe even the DSA) that may be active where they are, or they may not be. Then I'd probably tell them to look around Meetup or Facebook for local activists groups which may or may not exist.
To tie it back to Keystone XL - it's good that there's a national environmental effort that's getting attention and can organize large protests. But I'd like to see effort put into a "carbon tax now!" movement, or to press Obama to use more of his executive powers to cut emissions (the effort to press him wage the minimum wage for federal contract workers was pretty successful).