Updates from Tom
"TEDxIIT 2012 Gaining Momentum - http://t.co/zQNZ3mIz - read all about it. I spoke on The Gift Economy & created one!""What Exactly Does an Infrastructure Bank Do For Us Anyway? – http://t.co/B7tmHHnI Infrastructure Trust = Parking Meter scam on steroids.""Municipal finance expert predicts we'll "rue the day" Infrastructure Trust was passed - http://t.co/uPgbOP1b - Too late.""Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Atlantic http://t.co/leZIPDbb We need to meet face to face for change. Help me launch http://t.co/xq26N57o""Reinventing College To Prepare Us For The Future, Not The Past http://t.co/uSagfN37 - That's why I'm teaching class on creativity @ IIT."
Category Archives: Activism
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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