On AlterNet: social change

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Is Social Networking Useless for Social Change? A Response to The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell

Jeremy Brecher, Brendan Smith, AlterNet. October 8, 2010.

What if anything is the potential contribution of web-based "social networking" to social movements and social change?

Naomi Klein: How Corporate Branding Took Over the White House

Naomi Klein, Fourth Estate. January 18, 2010.

Ten years after the publication of "No Logo", Klein looks at how Obama created a brand that won him the Presidency. Will his failure to live up to his lofty brand cost him?

What We Can Learn from Social Struggle in South America

Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. December 23, 2008.

South American social movements are potential blueprints for change in the U.S.