The ad is for the Senator John Heinz History Center and it ran through ‘07. It got an award for cultural awareness at the ADDYs last month.

I’ve been working on the east coast usa for the last couple of weeks. My first time in Boston, DC, Maryland, Virginia. It’s spring and soooo beautiful. Really, truly, beautiful. The people, the place, all of it.

The work has been powerful:
- An organizational retreat with the Interaction Institute for Social Change. If you are looking for training, strategic planning, organizational development, coalition/network development on the east coast… these are your peeps.
- I’m currently at a 1Sky Campaign retreat. Add your voice to the call for action on climate change.

Days have been full so the pace of my blogging has slowed. However, I have been inspired… lovin this video.

Thanks to sweet Kai of the fab Garaj Mahal for the forward.

Photo: Hatem Moussa/The Associated Press

An elderly Palestinian in Gaza City holds a symbolic key in reference to what Arabs refer to as the Nakba, the Arabic word for ‘catastrophe,’ used to describe the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with the May, 1948, creation of the state of Israel.

Photo: Manan Vatsyayana/ AFP/Getty Images

Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak participate in a rally with their children in New Delhi to demand economic, medical and environmental changes.

a big shout out to the mothers of our world. the deepest of appreciation for your care, your guidance and your nurturing. I LOVE YOU MOM!

here’s a repost from The Root…

For Mother’s Day, musician India.Arie and her mother, Simpson, sat down with The Root for an intimate mother-daughter video chat. In a series of lively, funny and honest exchanges, the two shared their cross-generational views on tradition, independence, fabulousness, and the importance of sewing, music, fearless grandmothers — and a mom who rocks bikinis and red pumps, who will still run over and do your hair in a pinch.

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Photo: Umit Bektas/Reuters

May Day protesters shout from a window of a building where they took shelter during clashes with police in Istanbul.

Photo: Johannes Eisele/Reuters

A protester watches as a car burns during a demonstration in Hamburg, Germany.

Photo: Fabian Bimmer/The Associated Press

A demonstrator takes cover as police use water cannons during May Day clashes in Hamburg, Germany.

Photo: Sonny Tumbelka/AFP/Getty Images

Police keep watch as Papuanese protesters shout slogans against U.S. mining giant Freeport during a demonstration in Denpasar on Bali island.

I am about to crack open Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.

The premise…

A revelatory examination of how the wildfire-like spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill.

With accelerating velocity, our age’s new technologies of social networking are evolving, and evolving us, into new groups doing new things in new ways, and old and new groups alike doing the old things better and more easily. You don’t have to have a MySpace page to know that the times they are a changin’. Hierarchical structures that exist to manage the work of groups are seeing their raisons d’être swiftly eroded by the rising technological tide. Business models are being destroyed, transformed, born at dizzying speeds, and the larger social impact is profound.

I’ll keep you posted.

Here’s a clip from the author, Clay Shirky where he quips…

Standing from today, looking to the future… you will make more accurate predictions… by asking…
Not what’s the business model but rather… do the people that like it take care of each other?
…that turns out to be the better predictor of longevity.