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    <title>The &quot;Amazing Tale&quot; of How Three Billionaires Plunged the World into Climate Catastrophism (Daily Sceptic)</title>
    <dc:date>2024-04-17T01:58:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Billionaires Behind The Gas Bans (Robert Bryce)</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-27T20:01:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/the-billionaires-behind-the-gas-bans</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
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    <title>How Charles Koch Purchased the EPA Supreme Court Decision (Sharon Lerner | The Intercept)</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-11T05:44:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" To ensure further growth of his riches even as science showed that the continued use of fossil fuels would accelerate climate disaster, Koch has funneled some of his vast fortune into an extraordinary network of political front groups, lobbying efforts, think tanks, and activist networks that aim to stifle climate action. For decades, the Kochtopus, as some call his many-tentacled political influence machine, has sought to undermine not just the environmental regulation in Koch Industries’ path but also the science and philosophy of government on which it is based. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
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    <title>Wealthy G.O.P. Donors Form Secret Coalitions to Wield More Influence (New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2022-04-06T18:34:19+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/29/the-billionaire-takeover-of-civil-society/">
    <title>The billionaire takeover of civil society (Spiked)</title>
    <dc:date>2022-02-11T01:49:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/01/29/the-billionaire-takeover-of-civil-society/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
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    <title>A Dark-Money Team of Trump Cronies Is Cooking Up a Scandal at Biden’s VA (Jasper Craven | The New Republic)</title>
    <dc:date>2021-12-01T00:32:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Now, as Biden eyes an increasingly tricky 2022 map, Hegseth, CVA, and their new Trump allies from V4AF are replicating the 2014 playbook. Again, this work can be loosely traced to the Kochs but remains mostly shrouded under the cover of dark money. (V4AF’s website says its application to be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit is pending, so its sources of funding are unclear.)

" The group’s campaign promises to be a ruthless, multifront affair, one involving media influence, congressional arm-twisting, and legal action.

" Already, V4AF is writing thinly sourced articles explaining how the VA is “killing its veterans,” while the Kochs have recently deployed a fleet of lobbyists to support a string of hard-core privatization proposals. (Despite claiming to support all vets, a separate Koch-connected group, Concerned Women for America, has lobbied to prevent the VA from providing gender-confirmation surgeries.) The Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity Foundation, meanwhile, has filed a lawsuit seeking comprehensive wait-time data for private veteran appointments across the country. "]]></description>
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    <title>The Jobs Behind Successful Political Actions (David Hines | American Conservative)</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-24T17:40:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The second stage, Escalation, is where people really start getting staffed into the action structure’s departments: Comms/Digital, Tactical, Logistics, and People Support. (Remember, this structure is flexible, and people in it may have multiple roles). "]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/christian-identitys-new-role-extreme-right">
    <title>Christian Identity's New Role On The Extreme Right (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey)</title>
    <dc:date>2021-08-06T20:23:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/christian-identitys-new-role-extreme-right</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Despite traditional membership in CI congregations declining substantially, the Christian Identity movement is still influential. Identity beliefs and rhetoric currently function as a soft influence in neofascist accelerationist groups. While researching the CI movement, we discovered Christian Identity influence manifesting in over 30 public neofascist channels on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. Many of these channels do not openly claim to embrace or practice Christian Identity. However, through the presence of CI ideology and language, Christian Identity’s impact on these groups is clear and dangerous. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>religion political-organization</dc:subject>
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    <title>Thread by @AsraNomani</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-10T15:46:01+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" How did anti-capitalist, self-described Marxist Patrice Cullors #BlackLivesMatter monetize her activism? I wondered. Here’s what I found. She created a consulting firm with her wife Janaya Khan, an early BLM leader. jnp.llc “Janaya & Patrisse Consulting.” "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization capitalism</dc:subject>
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    <title>Why I invited Ann Coulter to speak at Berkeley (Pranav Jandhyala | Berkeley News)</title>
    <dc:date>2021-03-22T16:41:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://news.berkeley.edu/berkeley_blog/why-i-invited-ann-coulter-to-speak-at-berkeley/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" I founded BridgeUSA, the nonpartisan organization that invited Ann Coulter to the University of California at Berkeley’s campus. Our organization hopes to create a future in which our campus and our country are venues for free and fair political discussion and debate from all sides. We stand for the preservation of spaces where political ideas can be shared and challenged without fear of violence.

" To that end, we decided to bring Coulter to Berkeley today to speak to a body of mainly liberal students on immigration. Unfortunately, threatened attacks from extremist groups forced the cancellation of this event. Let’s be clear: Blame for the cancellation of Coulter’s speech does not rest solely on the shoulders of any individual. The administration, student groups including ours, external resistance groups and the media all made mistakes that need to be corrected. Fundamentally, though, the system of political dialogue and debate is broken, not just on this campus, but across the nation.

" We formed our organization earlier this year after the infamous Milo Yiannopoulos event here, where an incendiary speaker, violent rioters and a divided nation combined to create the perfect storm of political controversy. The university canceled a speech in February by Yiannopoulos, a prominent conservative writer, after intense protests that led to a campuswide “shelter in place” order. That day, instigation and violence replaced mediation and conversation — and we wanted to repair this breakdown in communication. Our goal since then has been to facilitate dialogue between political opposites, allowing everyone to engage with and understand opposing viewpoints. We have so far been successful in hosting forum sessions and debates on a series of different issues.  "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization conservatism</dc:subject>
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    <title>Bridge Institute - BridgeUSA</title>
    <dc:date>2021-03-22T16:35:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bridgeusa.org/bridge-institute/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Millennial Action Project
Bipartisan Policy Center
Govern for America
Braver Angels
Convergence
Unite America
American Conservation Coalition
Up To Us
Students for Carbon Dividends]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization astroturfing</dc:subject>
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    <title>Farmers Reject Biden’s Pro-Corporate Rural Advisers (David Dayen | American Prospect)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-10T15:06:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://prospect.org/power/farmers-reject-bidens-pro-corporate-rural-advisers/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" At the heart of the dispute is a conception of how to revitalize rural America. Business-friendly ag advisers emphasize trade, believing that promoting overseas markets will translate to prosperity for family farmers and ranchers. But “farmers do not export, Cargill exports,” Maxwell counters, arguing that Big Ag domination is a far greater challenge. If you don’t profit from what you produce, he reasons, more trade won’t fix the problem.

" Export strategies force farmers into monoculture crops and overproduction, which pushes down prices. Add to that increasing input costs for seed and machinery and you squeeze working farmers, who must compete with industrial-sized Big Ag operations. Small livestock producers are forced to sell low to concentrated meatpackers and watch as they pass on inflated prices to groceries, enjoying the middleman profits. “The big guys won’t process for the little guys and are putting the little guy out of business,” says Carrie Balkcom, executive director of the American Grassfed Association and a family rancher in South Florida. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:02bd77617849/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/essay-taiwo">
    <title>Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference (Olufemi O. Taiwo | The Philosopher)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-24T20:15:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/essay-taiwo</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Deference epistemology marks itself as a solution to an epistemic and political problem. But not only does it fail to solve these problems, it adds new ones. One might think questions of justice ought to be primarily concerned with fixing disparities around health care, working conditions, and basic material and interpersonal security. Yet conversations about justice have come to be shaped by people who have ever more specific practical advice about fixing the distribution of attention and conversational power. Deference practices that serve attention-focused campaigns (e.g. we’ve read too many white men, let’s now read some people of colour) can fail on their own highly questionable terms: attention to spokespeople from marginalized groups could, for example, direct attention away from the need to change the social system that marginalizes them.

" Elites from marginalized groups can benefit from this arrangement in ways that are compatible with social progress. But treating group elites’ interests as necessarily or even presumptively aligned with full group interests involves a political naiveté we cannot afford. Such treatment of elite interests functions as a racial Reaganomics: a strategy reliant on fantasies about the exchange rate between the attention economy and the material economy. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-epistemology political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:8e989b7eb5ce/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1317955669656588288.html">
    <title>Campus Reform (thread by Asha Rangappa)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-19T20:02:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1317955669656588288.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Campus Reform is a project of The Leadership Institute, which is funded by the Koch donor network. It's essentially, in intelligence terms, a PERCEPTION MANAGEMENT OPERATION designed to delegitimize the academy. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>conservatism political-organization academia</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:7aee09d6c551/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://battleborne.substack.com/p/mission-roll-call-claims-to-speak">
    <title>Mission Roll Call Claims To Speak For More Than One Million Veterans. What Is It Saying? (Jasper Craven | Battle Borne)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-08-26T14:21:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://battleborne.substack.com/p/mission-roll-call-claims-to-speak</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" While its goal is to harness the power of 10 million veterans, MRC employs just three people, including Cathcart. It’s nestled inside America’s Warrior Partnership (AWP), a well-heeled non-profit that connects struggling veterans with healthcare and social services. AWP is run by Jim Lorraine, a former Air Force flight nurse who went on to serve under Presidents Bush and Obama as director of care programs for the Defense Department’s Special Operations Command. The non-profit’s board is filled with finance types and former government officials, including Thomas Bowman, who recently retired as the Deputy Undersecretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:848423c8ccea/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/29/conservatives-remade-american-state-politics-heres-how-they-did-it/">
    <title>ALEC, the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, has changed the politics of American states (Henry Farrell | Washington Post)</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-28T02:15:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/29/conservatives-remade-american-state-politics-heres-how-they-did-it/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" ALEC does not operate alone, and in recent decades has been buttressed by two other cross-state conservative groups that complement ALEC’s strategies: the State Policy Network and Americans for Prosperity. These three organizations do different things and represent distinct constituencies, but often are pushing in the same direction on policy.

" The State Policy Network is a network of state-level conservative, pro-business think tanks that produce research reports, media commentary and testimony on behalf of many of the same bills that ALEC drafts. The close coordination between the Network and ALEC is no coincidence: One of ALEC’s early executive directors recognized that ALEC would be more successful if it had outside support, and so opened his donor list to the precursor to the State Policy Network and got think tanks participating regularly in ALEC meetings.

" Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is the newest of the three organizations but in many ways has become the most significant. Created and directed by the Koch brothers’ political network, it is a federated advocacy group that spans both electoral work and policy lobbying, with a presence in local-level government (city councils and even school boards), state government, Congress and presidential elections. As Theda Skocpol and I have explained, AFP in some ways resembles a political party: It has local field offices in key battleground counties, state offices, regional offices and a national headquarters that together direct some 3 million grass-roots volunteers and hundreds of millions of dollars in electoral and legislative campaigns. But AFP is not a free-standing party, and instead has historically worked through the Republican Party: helping to elect very conservative GOP politicians and then lobbying them to pursue a conservative free-market agenda. AFP also works closely with ALEC, especially on issues that involve rolling back labor rights and the power of unions, business regulations and taxes and government spending. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:39902a18bf8e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/12/the-document-that-reveals-the-remarkable-tactics-of-trans-lobbyists/">
    <title>The document that reveals the remarkable tactics of trans lobbyists (James Kirkuk | The Spectator)</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-02T17:01:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/12/the-document-that-reveals-the-remarkable-tactics-of-trans-lobbyists/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" According to the report, the countries that have moved most quickly to advance trans rights and remove parental consent have been those where the groups lobbying for those changes have succeeded in stopping the wider public learning about their proposals. Conversely, in places like Britain, the more ‘exposure’ this agenda has had, the less successful the lobbying has been: "]]></description>
<dc:subject>trans political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:dca4c6eaf1b8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/identity-fusion-trump-allegiance/598699/">
    <title>The Rise of Identity Fusion and Allegiance to Trump (James Hamblin | The Atlantic)</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-29T16:52:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/identity-fusion-trump-allegiance/598699/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Sometimes we bond especially strongly with some of our associations, such as family, a military group, or a religion. We say we can’t imagine existing without something. Even in cases of extreme identification, however, people typically maintain a sense of their own identity. There is a distinct conceptual border between self and other. You are a part of the team, and you are you.

" Occasionally, though, this border becomes permeable. Over the past decade, a new conceptualization has gained attention. It began with the seeds of an idea after the attacks on 9/11, Swann says, in that the terrorists’ actions seemed to him to be driven by unusually powerful group identities. A willingness to die—and to kill thousands of others in the process—goes beyond simple allegiance. He reasoned that these people had essentially taken on the group identity as their own.

" Swann gradually developed the concept and deemed it “identity fusion.” Along with a collaborator named Angel Gómez, he defined it in 2009 as when someone’s “personal and social identities become functionally equivalent.” The border between self and other, as Swann sees it, “become[s] porous.” The phenomenon is sometimes described as a visceral feeling of oneness with a group or person, and sometimes as an expansion of the self. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>phenomenology political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:3e6e81732fdb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://popula.com/2018/11/18/a-way-out/">
    <title>A Way Out (Tarance Ray | Popula)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-20T05:00:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://popula.com/2018/11/18/a-way-out/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" When it came to working-class issues, we had no way to counter the Friends of Coal message. We couldn’t offer people jobs; we were proposing to do away with actual jobs. We could offer them slightly cleaner streams, but the angle here would have been for recreation—and who wouldn’t sacrifice a few streams for a decent income and some healthcare? More to the point, we couldn’t really offer them respite from the sickness and destruction brought by coal mining, because our solutions—to really work—would have required more of them than they had to give us. How many working-class people had spare time to go lobby for environmental regulations? Who could set aside multiple jobs and family obligations to show up for rallies and lobbying days? To get in fights with their neighbors over obscure water quality provisions?

" Take the Stream Protection Rule, which makes my stomach ulcer bleed to think about. It was a regulation proposed by the Obama administration to reduce the amount of toxins released into streams from mountaintop-removal mines. In practice, it would have been pretty ineffectual—it still allowed some amount of poison to be released into streams, rather than the preferred amount of none—but we put enormous energy into passing it.

" The coal industry was no less determined: when the federal government held hearings on it in the fall of 2015, the industry’s lobby groups turned out paid protestors and coal miners to voice their opposition by getting riled up and threatening us with violence. These hearings seemed to serve the purpose of getting a bunch of pissed-off people in a room to see who could make the best argument. I guess we won the argument, because Obama signed the rule into effect in 2016. We also lost: Trump immediately discarded it when he took office in 2017. The ulcers we endured are all that remain. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>global-warming political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:f3439867190d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes">
    <title>How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country (New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-06-19T21:13:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://theintercept.com/2018/05/30/google-engine-advocacy-tech-startups/">
    <title>An Advocacy Group for Startups Is Funded by Google and Run by Ex-Googlers (David Dayen | The Intercept)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-06-04T13:17:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theintercept.com/2018/05/30/google-engine-advocacy-tech-startups/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" A Washington-based advocacy organization that purports to be a voice for startup tech companies is actually a sock puppet for Google, according to a report released Wednesday that details numerous links between the two.

" According to the report, startup advocacy group Engine has at least seven former Google employees and consultants on its board of directors and advisory board. Its three founders all previously worked at Google; they founded a startup incubator that Google eventually bought. Google has given Engine an undisclosed amount of funding over the past five years. The two share a lobbying firm called S-3 Group that has worked for both Engine and Google. The initial launch party for Engine in 2011 had attendees RSVP to a Google email address, which is reserved primarily for employees, unlike the Gmail address that is offered to the public.

" On numerous issues, from patent reform, anti-piracy efforts, and high-skilled immigration, to the recent changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, Engine’s advocacy and Google’s stated policy preferences are in alignment, the report explains. Google even funded a research paper that Engine later released.

" “Public officials need to be aware that this so-called startup advocacy group is really in bed with Silicon Valley’s foremost D.C. influence machine, whose interests are often in conflict with those of disruptive entrepreneurs,” said Daniel Stevens of the Campaign for Accountability, which released the report. There are no clean hands here: The Campaign for Accountability gets major funding from Oracle, a chief antagonist to Google. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>interest-groups industry-associations astroturfing political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:34922b23e752/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.buzzfeed.com/maryanngeorgantopoulos/parkland-teens-organization#.rjgy9GjbO">
    <title>The Parkland Teens Fighting For Gun Control Have The Backing Of These Huge Organizing Groups (Mary Ann Georgantopoulos, Brianna Sacks | Buzzfeed)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-28T18:41:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.buzzfeed.com/maryanngeorgantopoulos/parkland-teens-organization#.rjgy9GjbO</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Several large progressive organizations, donors, and a high-powered public relations firm are backing the March for Our Lives movement, which is quickly evolving from a student-run social media effort to end gun violence into one backed by some of the most influential activists in the country. "

...

" In addition to the millions of dollars raised by A-list celebrities including Oprah, George and Amal Clooney, Steven Spielberg, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, the March for Our Lives GoFundMe page has raised an additional $2.7 million as of Tuesday.

" Some of the highest GoFundMe donations have come from philanthropists such as Jeff Raikes — the former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — and his wife, Tricia, as well as Chris and Camille Bently, who run the Bently Foundation, which supports organizations in the areas of the environment, the arts, and animal welfare, according to its website. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization astroturfing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:ce34ca3894d9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.academia.edu/35831444/Turning_Point_USA_Continuous_Bibliography_of_Relevant_Documentation_Update_2.17.18">
    <title>Turning Point USA: Continuous Bibliography of Relevant Documentation (Wendy Lynne Lee | Academia.edu)</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-18T13:19:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.academia.edu/35831444/Turning_Point_USA_Continuous_Bibliography_of_Relevant_Documentation_Update_2.17.18</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:7475240f8713/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/democratic-party-voters-reconnect-233666">
    <title>Democratic Party rethink gets $20 million injection (Annie Karni | Politico)</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-17T14:20:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/democratic-party-voters-reconnect-233666</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The think tank, Third Way, on Tuesday is set to launch “New Blue,” a campaign to help Democrats reconnect with the voters who have abandoned the party. The money will be spent to conduct extensive research, reporting and polling in Rust Belt states that once formed a Blue Wall, but which voted for president-elect Donald Trump last November. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>think-tanks pension-privatization political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://apple.com/iphone/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:a32bd7133d5d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:pension-privatization"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-last-gasp-of-american-dream.html">
    <title>The Last Gasp of the American Dream (John Michael Greer @ The Archdruid Report)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-02T16:47:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-last-gasp-of-american-dream.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" That said, there’s another factor that probably plays an even larger role, which is that when working class Americans get told by slickly groomed talking heads in suits that something they believe is wrong, their default assumption is that the talking heads are lying. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization stratification</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:bd1c78ba4013/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12893">
    <title>Making Sense of the Clinton Foundation (Veronica Tash | The North Star)</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-24T17:54:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12893</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" In exchange for sizeable donations, Hillary made policy decisions in favor of the donors and may make future favors as President.  That money does do some charitable work to maintain the public front, but is most importantly used to fund these kickbacks to individuals who can help the Clinton political dynasty to keep going into the future.  The bribes paid by individuals and governments to the Foundation are laundered into other bribes the Clintons pay to loyalists through the front of a charity – one whose effectiveness they don’t want measured. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:e372094bc59d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/the-koch-brothers-intelligence-agency-215943#ixzz3rqnKUlkS">
    <title>The Koch intelligence agency (Kenneth P Vogel | Politico)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-18T15:52:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/the-koch-brothers-intelligence-agency-215943#ixzz3rqnKUlkS</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The competitive intelligence team has a staff of 25, including one former CIA analyst, and operates from one of the non-descript Koch network offices clustered near the Courthouse metro stop in suburban Arlington, Va. It has provided network officials with documents detailing confidential voter-mobilization plans by major Democrat-aligned groups. It also sends regular “intelligence briefing” emails tracking the canvassing, phone-banking and voter-registration efforts of labor unions, environmental groups and their allies, according to documents reviewed by POLITICO and interviews with a half-dozen sources with knowledge of the group.

" The competitive intelligence team has gathered on-the-ground intelligence from liberal groups’ canvassing events in an effort to assess the technology and techniques of field efforts to boost Democrats, according to the sources. And they say the team utilizes high-tech tactics to track the movements of liberal organizers, including culling geo-data embedded in their social media posts. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization privacy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://apple.com/iphone/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:9874c3c3f80d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://m.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich/2015/0408/How-the-Koch-brothers-and-the-super-rich-are-buying-their-way-out-of-criticism">
    <title>How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their way out of criticism (Robert Reich @ Christian Science Monitor)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-04T18:14:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://m.csmonitor.com/Business/Robert-Reich/2015/0408/How-the-Koch-brothers-and-the-super-rich-are-buying-their-way-out-of-criticism</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Not long ago I was asked to speak to a religious congregation about widening inequality. Shortly before I began, the head of the congregation asked that I not advocate raising taxes on the wealthy.

" He said he didn’t want to antagonize certain wealthy congregants on whose generosity the congregation depended.  

" I had a similar exchange last year with the president of a small college who had invited me to give a lecture that his board of trustees would be attending. “I’d appreciate it if you didn’t criticize Wall Street,” he said, explaining that several of the trustees were investment bankers. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>stratification political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://apple.com/iphone/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:56e20cd277f6/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://consortiumnews.com/2015/10/29/gop-and-the-rise-of-anti-knowledge/">
    <title>GOP and the Rise of Anti-Knowledge (Mike Lofgren | Consortium News)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-10-29T20:50:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://consortiumnews.com/2015/10/29/gop-and-the-rise-of-anti-knowledge/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Anti-knowledge is a subset of anti-intellectualism, and as Richard Hofstadter has pointed out, anti-intellectualism has been a recurrent feature in American life, generally rising and receding in synchronism with fundamentalist revivalism.

" The current wave, which now threatens to swamp our political culture, began in a similar fashion with the rise to prominence in the 1970s of fundamentalists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. But to a far greater degree than previous outbreaks, fundamentalism has merged its personnel, its policies, its tactics and its fate with a major American political party, the Republicans. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>cranks political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://apple.com/iphone/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:0aa7da1a7700/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/meet-flexians-government-business-media-money-power-wall-street-65029">
    <title>Meet the Flexians (Lisa Margonelli | Pacific Standard)</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-06T16:21:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/meet-flexians-government-business-media-money-power-wall-street-65029</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" A flexian, as Wedel defines the term, is a creature peculiar to our moment in history: a mover and shaker who serves multiple, overlapping roles with smiling finesse—business consultant, think tank fellow, government adviser. He is someone who “glides in and around the organizations that enlist his services,” she writes in her book Shadow Elite: How the World’s New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market. “It is not just his time that is divided. His loyalties, too, are often flexible. Even the short-term consultant doing one project at a time cannot afford to owe too much allegiance to the company or government agency. Such individuals are in these organizations (some of the time anyway), but they are seldom of them.” "]]></description>
<dc:subject>stratification political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:8d66dbfe2735/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3344#comic">
    <title>civics (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-06T19:39:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3344#comic</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>think-tanks political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:dbe4ed5d01fe/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:think-tanks"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115688/heritage-foundations-michael-needham-tears-apart-right-wing">
    <title>Heritage Foundation's Michael Needham Tears Apart Right Wing (Julia Ioffe | New Republic)</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-25T20:15:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115688/heritage-foundations-michael-needham-tears-apart-right-wing</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Increasingly in Washington, “Heritage” has come to denote not the foundation or the think tank, but Heritage Action, Needham’s sharp-elbowed operation. Instead of fleshing out conservative positions, says one Republican Senate staffer, “now they’re running around trying to get Republicans voted out of office. It’s a purely ideological crusade that’s utterly divorced from the research side.” (“If Nancy Pelosi could write an anonymous check to Heritage Action,” adds the House aide bitterly, “she would.”)

" As a result, the Heritage Foundation has gone from august conservative think tank revered by Washington’s Republicans to the party’s loathed ideological commissar. “It’s sad, actually,” says one Republican strategist. “Everybody forgets that Heritage was always considered the gold standard of conservative, forward-looking thought. The emergence of Heritage Action has really transformed the brand into a more political organization.” "]]></description>
<dc:subject>think-tanks political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:1ce53b8a691e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/milton-friedman/a397c260fe1e0e915eddb876412eb0a3f44154fe/">
    <title>When Congress Busted Milton Friedman (and Libertarianism Was Created By Big Business Lobbyists) (Mark Ames, NSFWcorp)</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-09T23:51:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/milton-friedman/a397c260fe1e0e915eddb876412eb0a3f44154fe/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>libertarians think-tanks political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:deb246fd64b8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:think-tanks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/06/mark-ames-the-lefts-big-sellout-how-the-aclu-and-human-rights-groups-quietly-exterminated-labor-rights.html">
    <title>The Left’s Big Sellout – How the ACLU and Human Rights Groups Quietly Exterminated Labor Rights (Mark Ames | Naked Capitalism)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-25T04:12:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/06/mark-ames-the-lefts-big-sellout-how-the-aclu-and-human-rights-groups-quietly-exterminated-labor-rights.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Less than twenty years after Fred Koch fought to destroy labor rights through “Right To Work” laws, the executive director of the ACLU, Aryeh Neier—the same Aryeh Neier who later led Human Rights Watch— colluded with William Buckley to push the ACLU rightward against labor by getting the ACLU to represent big business and “Right To Work” laws, under the guise of “protecting free speech”—the same bullshit pretense always used by lawyers and advocates to help big business crush labor and democracy. This “free speech” pretense is the basis on which the ACLU currently supports the Citizens United decision, which effectively legalized the transformation of America into an oligarchy. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>capitalism political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:c73a2a54b829/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.followthemoney.org/">
    <title>National Institute on Money in State Politics | Follow The Money</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-21T22:05:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.followthemoney.org/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:26518d4c8951/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/03/the_kochs_brothers_are_trying_to_seize_control_of_the_libertarian_think_tank_cato_.single.html">
    <title>The Koch brothers are trying to seize control of the libertarian think tank Cato (David Weigel, Slate Magazine)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-07T23:56:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/03/the_kochs_brothers_are_trying_to_seize_control_of_the_libertarian_think_tank_cato_.single.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" In early November, David Koch met with Bob Levy, chairman of Cato’s board of directors, at Dulles International Airport. They were joined by Richard Fink, Koch’s chief adviser, and Kevin Gentry, a vice president of Charles Koch’s charitable foundation who’d been put on Cato’s board of directors. (Former Americans for Prosperity President Nancy Pfotenhauer had joined the board after the same meeting.)

" “They said that a principal goal was to defeat Barack Obama,” remembered Levy. “The way David [Koch] put it was, ‘We would like you to provide intellectual ammunition that we can then use at Americans for Prosperity and our allied organizations.’ AFP and others would apply Cato’s work to advance their electoral goals.” "]]></description>
<dc:subject>think-tanks libertarians political-organization stratification</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:e9cb9e848d14/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/2/28/12537/6816">
    <title>How is Dominionism Getting into Politics? Meet the Apostles and Prophets of the NAR (Rachel Tabachnick, Talk To Action)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-28T23:19:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.talk2action.org/story/2012/2/28/12537/6816</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>religion political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:5eb250ef8568/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/us/politics/in-republican-race-a-new-breed-of-superdonor.html">
    <title>In Republican Race, a New Breed of Superdonor (Nicholas Confessore, Michael Luo, Mike McIntire, New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-22T04:57:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/us/politics/in-republican-race-a-new-breed-of-superdonor.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" About two dozen individuals, couples or corporations have given $1 million or more to Republican super PACs this year, an exclusive club empowered by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and other rulings to pool their money into federal political committees and pour it directly into this year’s presidential campaign.

" Collectively, their contributions have totaled more than $50 million this cycle, making them easily the most influential and powerful political donors in politics today. They have relatively few Democratic counterparts so far, with most of the leading liberal donors from past years giving relatively small amounts — or not at all — to the Democratic super PACs. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-parties political-organization stratification</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:02f81e125446/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/20/who-funds-thinktank-lobbyists?cat=commentisfree&amp;type=article">
    <title>We need to know who funds these thinktank lobbyists (George Monbiot @ Guardian)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-21T03:12:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/20/who-funds-thinktank-lobbyists?cat=commentisfree&amp;type=article</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The institute has claimed it is "a genuinely independent source of research and commentary" and that "we do not take positions in order to appease or avoid losing support from individual donors". But the documents, if authentic, reveal that its attacks on climate science have been largely funded by a single anonymous donor and that "we are extinguishing primarily global warming projects in pace with declines in his giving". "]]></description>
<dc:subject>think-tanks political-organization global-warming</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:80aadb6b93dd/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:global-warming"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/07/wicked-1.html">
    <title>Wicked (1) (Charles Stross)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-01T17:32:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/07/wicked-1.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" But often, in the human sphere, there are what're called "wicked" problems. In 1973, Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber defined a wicked problem this way: "]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-epistemology political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:6ca37195b2d4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://steelweaver.tumblr.com/post/8175553314/reality-as-failed-state-tl-dr-version-i-like-doing">
    <title>Reality as failed state - tl;dr version (steelweaver)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-29T18:10:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://steelweaver.tumblr.com/post/8175553314/reality-as-failed-state-tl-dr-version-i-like-doing</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>social-epistemology political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:f149bb290e8e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/15/alec/">
    <title>Who’s Really Behind Recent Republican Legislation in Wisconsin and Elsewhere? (Hint: It Didn’t Start Here) (William Cronon @ Scholar as Citizen)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-08T19:31:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/15/alec/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The most important group, I’m pretty sure, is the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which was founded in 1973 by Henry Hyde, Lou Barnett, and (surprise, surprise) Paul Weyrich. Its goal for the past forty years has been to draft “model bills” that conservative legislators can introduce in the 50 states. Its website claims that in each legislative cycle, its members introduce 1000 pieces of legislation based on its work, and claims that roughly 18% of these bills are enacted into law. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:be93e335334c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/24/open-records-attack-on-academic-freedom/">
    <title>Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom (William Cronon @ Scholar As Citizen)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-08T19:29:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/24/open-records-attack-on-academic-freedom/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The timing of Mr. Thompson’s request surely means that it is a response to my blog posting about the American Legislative Exchange Council, since I have never before been the subject of an Open Records request, and nothing in my prior professional life has ever attracted this kind of attention from the Republican Party. It doesn’t take a great leap of logic to infer that Mr. Thompson and his colleagues aren’t particularly eager to have a state university professor asking awkward questions about the dealings of state Republicans with the American Legislative Exchange Council. This open records request apparently seemed to Mr. Thompson to be a good way to discourage me from sticking my nose in places he doesn’t think it belongs. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia political-organization public-intellectuals</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:c4d2b83f7658/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:public-intellectuals"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/4/4/142733/1743">
    <title>Smart ALEC: Dragging the Secretive Conservative Organization Out of the Shadows (Bill Berkowtiz | Talk To Action)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-05T15:38:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/4/4/142733/1743</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>political-organization think-tanks conservatism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:7567db4dd00b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:think-tanks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:conservatism"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2011/03/wisconsin-republican-party-attacks.html">
    <title>Wisconsin Republican Party Attacks Academic Freedom (Michael Meranze @ Remaking the University)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-03-25T23:23:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2011/03/wisconsin-republican-party-attacks.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" The Wisconsin Republican Party apparently found Cronon's writing on the links between Walker's initiatives and ALEC unacceptable.  In response they demanded--under Wisconsin's Open Records Law--copies of any of Cronon's University emails relating to a series of names and topics. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia political-organization public-intellectuals</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:ebadb713e0e6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:public-intellectuals"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/a-social-movement-society/">
    <title>a social movement society? (Brayden King | orgtheory)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-22T16:40:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/a-social-movement-society/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" In their essay outlining the social movement society thesis, Meyer and Tarrow (1998b) ask, ‘‘Has something fundamental changed in the politics in contemporary industrial democracies?’’ We answer that in terms of the overall level of protest participation and in the types of people who demonstrate, there has been no fundamental change. We find only a slight trend toward greater participation in demonstrations during the past 35 years, and that cohorts born after the Baby Boomers are much less likely than their parents to have participated in a protest, although we note a small resurgence among individuals born in the 1980s. Combined with the lack of social  and demographic diffusions, this suggests that the United States may have a social movement generation, but it is not a social movement society (pg. 146-47). "]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-movements protest political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:222da4f53bad/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:protest"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/02/9958/koch-connection-scott-walkers-war-working-people">
    <title>The Koch Connection in Scott Walker's War on Working People (Anne Landman, PR Watch)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-19T22:10:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/02/9958/koch-connection-scott-walkers-war-working-people</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:d9525066c0aa/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/lobbyists-chamberleaks/">
    <title>US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents (ThinkProgress)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-11T20:18:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/lobbyists-chamberleaks/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" According to one document, the campaign included an entrapment project. The proposal called for first creating a “false document, perhaps highlighting periodical financial information,” to give to a progressive group opposing the Chamber, and then to subsequently expose the document as a fake to undermine the credibility of the Chamber’s opponents. In addition, the group proposed creating a “fake insider persona” to “generate communications” with Change to Win. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization enterprise-terrorism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:717d49477f2c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-koch-brothers-20110206,0,1681069.story">
    <title>Koch brothers now at heart of GOP power (Tom Hamburger, Kathleen Hennessey, Neela Banerjee, Los Angeles Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-06T04:48:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-koch-brothers-20110206,0,1681069.story</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><dc:subject>policy-production political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:142bc20d5560/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:policy-production"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/1/3/122613/0240">
    <title>The Rise of Charismatic Dominionism (Rachel Tabachnick, Talk To Action)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-04T15:35:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/1/3/122613/0240</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" At the moment much of the nation believes that the Religious Right is in retreat.  Not so.  The Religious Right is reorganizing and rearming, much of it under the banner of Charismatic Dominionism. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>religion political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:3fbf3a156acf/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:religion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/magazine/20george-t.html?pagewanted=all">
    <title>Robert P. George, the Conservative-Christian Big Thinker (David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-03T20:24:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/magazine/20george-t.html?pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" He has parlayed a 13th-century Catholic philosophy into real political influence. ...  Karl Rove told me he considers George a rising star on the right and a leading voice in persuading President George W. Bush to restrict embryonic stem-cell research. ... With the death of the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a Lutheran minister turned Roman Catholic priest who helped bring evangelicals and Catholics together into a political movement, George has assumed his mantle as the reigning brain of the Christian right. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>religion political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:2270249db56f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:religion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/3443/former_employees%3A_racism_%26_abuse_in_leading_religious_right_org/">
    <title>Former Employees: Racism &amp; Abuse in Leading Religious Right Org (Sarah Posner, Religion Dispatches)</title>
    <dc:date>2011-01-02T06:37:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/3443/former_employees%3A_racism_%26_abuse_in_leading_religious_right_org/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Former AFA employees describe Wildmon—who led the organization until just last year—as an autocratic micromanager incapable of socializing with or showing empathy for his own employees. "]]></description>
<dc:subject>religion political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:ca56fa020c54/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:religion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/opinion/02herbert.html?_r=1">
    <title>Fast Track to Inequality (Bob Herbert @ New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-11-03T17:55:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/opinion/02herbert.html?_r=1</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson argue persuasively that the economic struggles of the middle and working classes in the U.S. since the late-1970s were not primarily the result of globalization and technological changes but rather a long series of policy changes in government that overwhelmingly favored the very rich. "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>stratification political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:e0d133ecd193/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:stratification"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/us/politics/09thomas.html">
    <title>Activism of Thomas’s Wife Could Raise Judicial Issues (Jackie Calmes, New York Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-10-20T00:52:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/us/politics/09thomas.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" Mrs. Thomas’s supporters said she plays an important role as a bridge between grass-roots Tea Party activists and establishment Republicans in Washington. "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-movements political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:78279caf1e6c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:social-movements"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.slate.com/id/2267975/">
    <title>The evolution of the race card in American politics (Christopher Hitchens @ Slate)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-20T18:43:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.slate.com/id/2267975/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" It is not only on the right that the auction of demagogy is operating, and the bids are headed downward. "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization public-opinion race-ethnicity</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:7bcf0caecd5c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:public-opinion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:race-ethnicity"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/school-daze/notorious-jew-bashing-long-bea/index.php">
    <title>Notorious Jew-Bashing Long Beach State Professor Joins Notorious Racist Lawyer to Create White-Power Political Party (Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly)</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-06T05:36:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/school-daze/notorious-jew-bashing-long-bea/index.php</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Let's see what MacDonald will say now: The Weekly can reveal that the professor is now partnering with local skinheads and a notorious racist lawyer to create a new political party modeled after England's fascist British National Party, a new party created explicitly to oppose and deport non-whites."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization cranks white-supremacists</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:ec973cd36d46/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:cranks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:white-supremacists"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-transition14-2008nov14,0,1793844.story?track=rss">
    <title>Vast Obama network becomes a political football (Peter Wallsten, Tom Hamburger, Los Angeles Times)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-11-14T19:46:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-transition14-2008nov14,0,1793844.story?track=rss</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["{Traditionally, the new president would blend his campaign operation with his party's national committee. Some of Obama's closest advisors lean toward that pragmatic view. .., Instead, Obama advisors involved in building the force think it should remain an independent entity -- organized around the "Obama brand.""
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-movements political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:34844ad5467a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:social-movements"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/2827217/Neoconservatives-plan-Project-Sarah-Pain-to-shape-future-American-foreign-policy.html#article">
    <title>Neoconservatives plan Project Sarah Palin to shape future American foreign policy (Tim Shipman, Telegraph)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-17T00:16:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/sarahpalin/2827217/Neoconservatives-plan-Project-Sarah-Pain-to-shape-future-American-foreign-policy.html#article</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A former Republican White House official, who now works at the American Enterprise Institute, a bastion of Washington neoconservatism, admitted: "She's bright and she's a blank page."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:4d77a53a44e1/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18349197/the_chicken_doves">
    <title>The Chicken Doves (Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone)</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-14T05:20:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18349197/the_chicken_doves</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Working behind the scenes, the Democrats have systematically taken over the anti-war movement, packing the nation's leading group with party consultants more interested in attacking the GOP than ending the war."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-movements political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:b808e1d76a5f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:social-movements"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/06/estranged_bedfellows.html">
    <title>Estranged Bedfellows (Sam Berger, Shira Saperstein, Center for American Progress)</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-18T19:29:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/06/estranged_bedfellows.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Merck quietly lobbied conservative groups to rein in their opposition. ... After the vaccine was approved, however, Merck immediately began pushing for state legislatures to mandate it, contrary to the regular... practice"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>policy-production political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:94bba7e17c63/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:policy-production"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-think_tank/us_thinktanks_3137.jsp">
    <title>US think-tanks: casualties in the war of ideas [2005 Dec 20] (James McGann @ openDemocracy)</title>
    <dc:date>2007-02-02T21:29:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-think_tank/us_thinktanks_3137.jsp</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Think-tanks, long recognised for their independent analysis [chuckle snort], are now at risk of losing their credibility and independence as they get drawn into and polarised by this conflict."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>policy-production interest-groups political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:46707371a8a6/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:policy-production"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:interest-groups"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.theihs.org/article.php/174.html">
    <title>Institute for Humane Studies, Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow Program</title>
    <dc:date>2006-10-07T23:44:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theihs.org/article.php/174.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The IHS at George Mason University funds summer internships at a variety of conservative and/or libertarian think-tanks, media outlets, and publications. Incongruously, among them is one student group: Students for Saving Social Security.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>pension-privatization interest-groups astroturfing political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:86ff5f9d2cc4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:pension-privatization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:interest-groups"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:astroturfing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the-libertarian-democrat/">
    <title>The Case for the Libertarian Democrat (Markos Moulitsas @ Cato Unbound)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-10-03T21:41:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the-libertarian-democrat/</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Drowning and bathtubs, meet babies and bathwater.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization framing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:bde56ec559c4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:framing"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061016/berman">
    <title>Big $$ for Progressive Politics [Democracy Alliance] (Ari Berman, Nation)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-10-03T05:56:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061016/berman</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Even as the donors pour millions into a new political infrastructure, however, problems have emerged that mirror many of the problems of the Democratic Party today and the progressive movement in general."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization policy-production</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:bdd019f8e05f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:policy-production"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/16/AR2006071600882_pf.html">
    <title>A New Alliance Of Democrats Spreads Funding (Jim VandeHei, Chris Cillizza, Washington Post)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-09-26T02:36:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/16/AR2006071600882_pf.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["directing more than $50 million in the past nine months to liberal think tanks and advocacy groups in what organizers say is the first installment of a long-term campaign to compete more aggressively against conservatives."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization policy-production</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:c22411ad3829/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:policy-production"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1538663,00.html">
    <title>The Netroots Hit Their Limits (Perry Bacon Jr., Time)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-09-24T22:46:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1538663,00.html</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["a coarse estimate of the Netroots' numbers shows them to be something less than a groundswell. ... When it comes to money, the bloggers are still playing with Monopoly dollars compared with groups like Emily's List and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>interest-groups political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:388c0a34eb08/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:interest-groups"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.prwatch.org/node/5188">
    <title>[Global PR firm] Aims To 'Leverage and Deflect' Activists (PR Watch)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-09-20T20:33:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.prwatch.org/node/5188</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[They're planning 5 decades ahead: "[The PR firm] describes corporate social responsibility as allowing companies to "take the offensive" and that "social involvement will become the primary means for influencing public perception." "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-movements framing longview political-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:5e1bca3b5a0d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:social-movements"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:framing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:longview"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-28-oppose_x.htm">
    <title>Turnover brings fresh blood (Paul Farago, Restore Oregon's Term Limits Committee @ USA Today)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-09-13T18:46:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-28-oppose_x.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["NCSL claims that term limits result in "legislative brain drain." How dismissive of lawmakers and voters alike! In fact, many citizens have the knowledge and skills required to be legislators — and to be voters."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>policy-production political-organization overconfident-amateurism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:0a334792d7fb/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:policy-production"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:overconfident-amateurism"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/06/27/050627fa_fact">
    <title>God and Country: A college that trains young Christians to be politicians (Hanna Rosin, New Yorker)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-08-28T02:17:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/06/27/050627fa_fact</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Of the school’s 61 graduates ... 2 have jobs in the White House; 6 are on the staffs of conservative members of Congress; 8 are in federal agencies" ... The senior project is designed "to mimic the work that an entry-level staffer would be assigned."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-organization social-movements interest-groups religion gaaaah</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/b:1d013bba0b35/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:political-organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:social-movements"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:interest-groups"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:religion"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:kellyramsey/t:gaaaah"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060828&amp;s=trb082806">
    <title>Does Ned Lamont's victory mean McGovernism has returned? (Peter Beinart, New Republic)</title>
    <dc:date>2006-08-17T19:35:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060828&amp;s=trb082806</link>
    <dc:creator>kellyramsey</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["they don't articulate much of a worldview at all. Netroots activists call this a strength, saying that what binds them is not ideology but partisanship. But,without ideological content, partisan loyalty is vacuous if not amoral-the mere pursuit of power"
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