Certainly individualist, unaccountable, white-focused and, in my view, racist approaches to this work and activism do exist, and perhaps in some places that goes by the name of antiracism. But the overall movement of antiracist theory and action has been away from just that type of approach.

Has the mainstream left gone insane in response to these town halls on health care reform? When you have what you see is an illegitimate process set up to provide the appearance of taking people's views into consideration when in fact the outcome is a foregone conclusion, then of course you try to shut down that process.

Last year, I launched my freelance consulting firm, Rootwork, which provides web development services, online organizing and fundraising strategy and more for nonprofits.

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"At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day — indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue — the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours."

RIP, Studs Terkel

On Saturday, Republican vice-presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin came to Philadelphia. ACT-UP/Philly, among many other groups, called for an organized protest. I showed up and took some pictures. I even made a video of the protest of which I'm quite proud. In wanting to represent the breadth of the protest, however, I took some pictures of people wearing shirts that attacked Sarah Palin using language demeaning to women.