The Vote Fallacy: Strategically Advancing Radical Politics in the 2004 Elections
While election seasons are widely seen as times when the polity practices politics, this is an illusion; electoralism that accepts the premises of representative democracy is conceptually distinct and...
View ArticleCrisis and Crisis Management in Hurricane Katrina: A Radical Critique
During crisis events, people often show their most compassionate and even heroic sides. In Hurricane Katrina’s disruption of every day life, most people in New Orleans have done the best they can to...
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Mass Movement: Genetic Engineering becomes question of Democracy at...
(This article was published by Gene Watch, Volume 20 Number 3 May – June 2007. http://www.gene-watch.org/genewatch/volume20.html) Since the year 2000, in many parts of New England — especially Vermont,...
View ArticleThe Potentials and Pitfalls of Town Meeting Advocacy
(This article was published by Communalism: A Social Ecology Journal, Issue #2 Spring/Summer 2010) Many communities in New England have a tradition of town meeting, dating back to the American...
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Grosscup challenges Sen. Kerry (D-MA) over war funding
On February 19 ISE Board member Ben Grosscup joined a reported crowd of over 250 at a “town-hall-style” meeting with Senator John Kerry. The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported on the event where Ben...
View ArticleBen Grosscup: Questioning “economic development”
War profiteers and peddlers of deadly soft drinks expand amidst recession, but ethics define economic health By Ben Grosscup, ISE Board Member (From the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Monday, September 12,...
View ArticleOn Boston: The Inevitability of Vulnerability
From ISE board member and outstanding singer/songwriter Ben Grosscup: Boston Tragedy Reveals Inevitability of Vulnerability By Ben Grosscup Public acts of inexplicable and horrific violence such as...
View ArticleVermont Yankee is closing!
Let’s celebrate, unify allied struggles, and focus on fights to come By Ben Grosscup The announcement this week that Vermont Yankee – the 41 year old nuclear power plant in southern Vermont that has...
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