March 9th, 2010
From Danna Moore, our Stakeholder Campaigns Director:
Over the years, I’ve worked, interned and volunteered in the activist community. As a student and resident in San Francisco, it wasn’t difficult to find a highly-active grassroots network of organizations and individuals fighting against war, poverty and environmental degradation. The progressive culture here is an inspiring and passionate bubble that creates a thirst for knowledge in the political and social sphere.
That progressive culture has led me to where I am today, a campaign organizer working on climate policy at a non-profit based out of SF. When I first came to Future 500, it took me a while to fully understand the model. The organization simultaneously works with both the activist community and (gasp) the corporate sector, searching for common ground opportunities.
The interesting set of bedfellows we engage brings, not surprisingly, skepticism from both sectors, and elicits eye-opening reactions.
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March 3rd, 2010
From Bill Shireman, Future 500 President:
The bipartisan summit on health care has already been dubbed a failure by party spinsters on both sides. But Americans are hungry for the integrative approach it symbolizes.
So am I. I resolve conflicts between political adversaries for a living. And I spend much of my blogging time attempting to crash conversations among true-believers on the right and left – the ones that demonize their favorite enemies as the source of all wrongdoing.
Whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, or Tea-totaler, it’s time for you to stop hanging out with mirrors, and crash those other parties too. To solve today’s challenges, we need strange political bedfellows, partisans willing to jump into the sack with one another, and bring their ideological codes together. That’s the only way to conceive smart and integrative solutions to the challenges we face.
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