Although the initial email described the call as tentative, simply saying "Bernie is thinking about organizing a conference call with a number of leaders in Iowa who we have met this past year," Fiermonte confirmed that the call was happening.
Their organizing efforts span from the expected – standing on the streets, handing out petitions and flyers – to the unusual, such as 'occupying' their workplace to keep it from closing.
Asked about Ta-Nehisi Coates' thesis of "white supremacy as one of the central organizing forces in American life", Dow agreed: Look at the fucking founding documents!
And note well that governments' relationship with the net is necessarily influenced by the net's disruptive force on government: witness the internet's use in organizing protests against governments in Turkey, Brazil, Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, and more nations by the day.
"The idea – if the workers were successful – was to create a piece that would be useful as organizing and educational tool," Lears said.
Today, the right is out there organizing and proselytizing and signing people up for yet another grievance-hyping mass movement.
It's not fatalistic to say so.Mr Frank's fair point is that there is much to be said for "organizing and proselytizing and signing people up for... [a] grievance-hyping mass movement".
The nation was a natural way of organizing in the past.
"Her command of the Democratic machinery, from fundraising to grass-roots organizing, is so extensive that almost everyone else is understandably intimidated about even testing their talents against her," Mr Balz says.Maybe Mrs Clinton has been indeed bigfooting around, scaring off would-be contenders.
As a species, we are still far from organizing ourselves around this particular threat, let alone tackling it in earnest by joining all our forces.
Without this transformation, the lack of institutionalized mechanisms for voicing and organizing dissent will eventually produce conflicts that will overwhelm the capacity of the regime to suppress.
