Updates from Tom
"Chef Jackie Shen | Chef 2 Chef http://t.co/qza8NCwo via @Chef2Chef - She's visiting my class on creativity & business @ IIT tonight!""Tim Brown on creativity and play http://t.co/ECKLPwZf #TED - Discover rules of play to help generate ideas...""Theater for the 99% Blistering, enchanting "Ameriville" @ #VictoryGardens - http://t.co/PB7JOPRj - Music, stories, images & movement!""Introduction to Week 5 of "Public Policy Advocacy": http://t.co/7XGSHALP - Teaching classes on social change & civic engagement @ UIC.""I'll be @ IIT's Feb 17 Friday Fusion - Wishnick Hall, Rm 115 @ 2pm - "CEO's Say Creativity #1 Requirement for New Managers""
Category Archives: Activism
Nonprofits Have Failed America – Solution? Political Action
Tom gave this ten minute talk at the University of Illinois Chicago’s Great Cities Institute forum on the future of nonprofits. Bottom line – nonprofits have failed us. Solution? Click here.
Jane Addams Was Tough, Played Politics – America’s Nonprofits, Take Note
With the demise of Hull House one of the issues that lingers over the disaster is how nonprofit leaders have strayed so far from Jane Addams fighting spirit. From The Chicago Tribune: “Chicagoans know Addams as a leader of the … Continue reading
Good Bye, Jane. Shame On Chicago. What Now?
So Hull House closed on Friday without a whimper. No one put up a fight. So maybe it deserved to die. Over 635 people have signed the online petition to save Hull House by the time of this writing but … Continue reading
Save Hull House!
I just learned of this terrible news. How did it happen? We can’t let Hull House, founded by social justice pioneer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jane Addams, go out of business. Sign the online petition to SAVE HULL HOUSE! … Continue reading
It’s Official – Income Inequality Near Record High
Alan B. Krueger, Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told us all in a speech on January 12 what we have all experienced – namely, that income inequality in America is at all-time high. “My theme in … Continue reading
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Artists Running For Office? How About President?
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright, human rights activist and yes – politician – died on December 18. Beloved in his country for speaking passionately and eloquently to power, he was was elected to the post of interim president of Czechoslovakia … Continue reading
Can We Please Have MMPCL?
According to SlashGear, “Star Wars: The Old Republic is launching today and is one of the coolest MMORPG games I have seen in a long time. Any Star Wars fan will want to check this game out. The game launches … Continue reading
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Tom’s Keynote from Forum – “Connecting the Dots – Privatization is the Symptom, Not the Cure”
Evanston Neighbors for Peace presented… “The Privatizers are coming! They’re HERE!” Connecting the Dots – Privatization Is The Symptom, Not The Cure The presenters were Tom Tresser of Illinois Public Bank Working Group and Flo Estes of the Evanston … Continue reading
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Welcome to my world…
Questions I’ve been investigating: How to make politics interesting? How to protect the Commons? What is the value of creativity? What are the connections between imagination, culture and creativity and economic development and social change? Work I’m currently engaged in: … Continue reading
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Tom To Teach “Community Organizing 201″ @ CommuniTeach
Tom will be teaching “Community Organizing 201″ for CommuniTeach on Wednesday, July 13 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at the Bucktown Public Library. This is for people who have already taken a workshop with Tom or who have experience organizing. We … Continue reading
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