As of 12:05 eastern, we are at 209 contributors. We need 400, and we need your help to do it! — Chris Bowers
Building a movement is a long hard slog (as Donald Rumsfeld might have put it.) There are flashes of genius, moments where things all come together, sparks that start bigger fires at just the right time. But mostly it’s just hard unglamorous work over a very long time. Lots of frustration. Little money. Allies who piss you off.
But it’s work that has to be done if you are going to achieve real and lasting change for the better.
The good news is that if the work is done with a spirit of innovation and fun, things get a lot easier. That is why OpenLeft and Living Liberally are so important to support. Those of us at OpenLeft, and our dear friends and allies at Living Liberally, do all that hard movement-building work, but we have fun doing it, too. We are always trying new things, stretching ourselves to come up with new ways to make things happen.
As you may have seen yesterday, this week we are joining forces on yet another project: to raise us some money. We decided that offering you a twofer might make you interested in giving more. For just one contribution, you can support innovative activism, cogent political analysis, and important networks of people working for change- in two great organizations at the cutting edge of progressive strategy.
Please do your part and help us out. If you do, you will be supporting the work of two organizations worth of activists and writers working to build a better world, and you can feel very, very good about yourself. If you don’t, we’ll produce a really horrendous video of Justin Krebs and Chris Bowers moping around in deep depression, and you just don’t want to have to see that.
Your choice is clear: give now.
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