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Patrick Walker is co-founder of Revolt Against Plutocracy (RAP) and the Bernie or Bust movement it spawned. Before that, he cut his activist teeth with the anti-fracking and Occupy Scranton PA movements. No longer with RAP, he wields his pen and his activist network to wage holy war for climate justice. Hoping to help build a counterculture of revolt, he also writes quirky, highly literate song lyrics for the rising indie band God's Comics. A happily married man for over 10 years, Patrick has lost his beloved wife Ginger to colon cancer. He resides with his ineffably charming Sheltie dog Jasmine in East Amherst, NY.
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Sunday, January 27, 2019
Forum Perversion: Why Progressive Media Should BAN Climate-Troll Comments Highly controversial--and more philosophical than my typical political article--this piece makes a compelling case for why climate-change-denying comments should be BANNED from political articles in progressive/leftist publications. Damning them as "forum perversion," it paves the way for arguing that if such defenses of pseudoscience are allowed, a flood of comments from the Flat Earth Society should be allowed too.
Sunday, January 27, 2019Forum Perversion: Why Progressive Media Should BAN Climate-Troll Comments Highly controversial--and more philosophical than my typical political article--this piece makes a compelling case for why climate-change-denying comments should be BANNED from political articles in progressive/leftist publications. Damning them as "forum perversion," it paves the way for arguing that if such defenses of pseudoscience are allowed, a flood of comments from the Flat Earth Society should be allowed too.
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Friday, January 11, 2019
Referendum 2020: A Green New Deal vs. Racist, Classist Climate Genocide Facing Democrat leadership's obstinate opposition to their climate-saving agenda, Green New Deal supporters may need a "nuclear option" to shame them into line. How about this: the Sunrise Movement and its allies backing whichever Democrat presidential hopeful makes the 2020 election a referendum between a Green New Deal and Republicans' racist, social Darwinist climate genocide? Read and watch establishment heads explode!
Friday, January 11, 2019Referendum 2020: A Green New Deal vs. Racist, Classist Climate Genocide Facing Democrat leadership's obstinate opposition to their climate-saving agenda, Green New Deal supporters may need a "nuclear option" to shame them into line. How about this: the Sunrise Movement and its allies backing whichever Democrat presidential hopeful makes the 2020 election a referendum between a Green New Deal and Republicans' racist, social Darwinist climate genocide? Read and watch establishment heads explode!
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Saturday, December 22, 2018
Russiagate vs. Climate Genocide: How Democrats Cover Up Trump's Worst Crime A hard-hitting piece exploring how Democrats, for fear of raising policy topics embarrassing to their own party leadership, have refused to discuss issues that would paint Republicans in not merely a negative, but a criminally insane light. Foremost of these is Trump's openly conducted, beyond-genocidal climate policy, which Democrats have reprehensibly covered up under perhaps unprovable Russia collusion charges.
Saturday, December 22, 2018Russiagate vs. Climate Genocide: How Democrats Cover Up Trump's Worst Crime A hard-hitting piece exploring how Democrats, for fear of raising policy topics embarrassing to their own party leadership, have refused to discuss issues that would paint Republicans in not merely a negative, but a criminally insane light. Foremost of these is Trump's openly conducted, beyond-genocidal climate policy, which Democrats have reprehensibly covered up under perhaps unprovable Russia collusion charges.
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Sunday, December 16, 2018
Schumer vs. the Climate: Manchin's Criminally Insane Promotion Here's a timely indictment of Chuck Schumer for the climate crime of promoting fossil fuel puppet Joe Manchin to the role of head Democrat on a powerful Senate energy committee. Beyond that, this piece is a ringing call to arms to the gutsy "superheroes" of the Sunrise Movement, in whose face Schumer just had the rashly foolish audacity to spit by promoting Manchin.
Sunday, December 16, 2018Schumer vs. the Climate: Manchin's Criminally Insane Promotion Here's a timely indictment of Chuck Schumer for the climate crime of promoting fossil fuel puppet Joe Manchin to the role of head Democrat on a powerful Senate energy committee. Beyond that, this piece is a ringing call to arms to the gutsy "superheroes" of the Sunrise Movement, in whose face Schumer just had the rashly foolish audacity to spit by promoting Manchin.
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Sunday, December 2, 2018
Peace Activists' Best Hope? The Sunrise CLIMATE Movement This piece makes the case that the best path forward for peace activists is-paradoxically-- to support the Sunrise CLIMATE movement and bring out the peace agenda latent in its call for a Green New Deal.
Sunday, December 2, 2018Peace Activists' Best Hope? The Sunrise CLIMATE Movement This piece makes the case that the best path forward for peace activists is-paradoxically-- to support the Sunrise CLIMATE movement and bring out the peace agenda latent in its call for a Green New Deal.
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Saturday, November 3, 2018
Ratting Out Chuck Schumer, Democrats' Low-Profile Teflon Don This tactical follow-up to my piece on the message and strategy has it all! No cow is too sacred here, not even Bernie Sanders or the Poor People's Campaign. But all my satire and outraged criticism is in a great, desperate cause: to fight EFFECTIVELY for climate justice before it's too late--for human civilization.
Series: Slashing the Gordian Knot of Lesser-Evil Voting (2 Articles, 3219 views)
Saturday, November 3, 2018Ratting Out Chuck Schumer, Democrats' Low-Profile Teflon Don This tactical follow-up to my piece on the message and strategy has it all! No cow is too sacred here, not even Bernie Sanders or the Poor People's Campaign. But all my satire and outraged criticism is in a great, desperate cause: to fight EFFECTIVELY for climate justice before it's too late--for human civilization.
Series: Slashing the Gordian Knot of Lesser-Evil Voting (2 Articles, 3219 views)
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Friday, October 26, 2018
How the Rats Revolt: "Ratting Out" Democrats' Electoral Extortion This article, part of a two-part series, involves fresh thinking--perhaps revolutionary thinking--on a perennial problem for the left. Namely, how to approach the problem of lesser-evil voting. If the "Rats' Revolt" suggested by Ralph Nader and and embraced by Chris Hedges is willing to embrace my revolt strategy, our movement could be the sword that severs the divisive and paralyzing lesser-evil voting dilemma.
Series: Slashing the Gordian Knot of Lesser-Evil Voting (2 Articles, 3219 views)
Friday, October 26, 2018How the Rats Revolt: "Ratting Out" Democrats' Electoral Extortion This article, part of a two-part series, involves fresh thinking--perhaps revolutionary thinking--on a perennial problem for the left. Namely, how to approach the problem of lesser-evil voting. If the "Rats' Revolt" suggested by Ralph Nader and and embraced by Chris Hedges is willing to embrace my revolt strategy, our movement could be the sword that severs the divisive and paralyzing lesser-evil voting dilemma.
Series: Slashing the Gordian Knot of Lesser-Evil Voting (2 Articles, 3219 views)
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Monday, July 30, 2018
Climate Genocide: Why the Poor People's Campaign Should Demand Trump's Impeachment Probably the most important activist piece I've written: one calling for the Poor People's Campaign to use its movement clout to demand Donald Trump's impeachment. And for a better reason than anyone else has offered: for his planned climate genocide--above all, his planned racist, classist genocide of poor people of color. Unlike Russiagate, impeaching Trump for climate genocide will deter Pence from ecocidal policies.
Monday, July 30, 2018Climate Genocide: Why the Poor People's Campaign Should Demand Trump's Impeachment Probably the most important activist piece I've written: one calling for the Poor People's Campaign to use its movement clout to demand Donald Trump's impeachment. And for a better reason than anyone else has offered: for his planned climate genocide--above all, his planned racist, classist genocide of poor people of color. Unlike Russiagate, impeaching Trump for climate genocide will deter Pence from ecocidal policies.
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Thursday, June 28, 2018
Neither Idiots nor Useful: Our Politically Underachieving Liberal Churches (Part 1 of 2: Prophetic Promise) With civilization itself at stake, this two-part article makes a compelling case that political Left and liberal churches desperately need each other. Specifically, the "prophetic witness" of liberal churches could put a unique moral energy and organizing platform behind the Left's urgent political agenda. Importantly, this essay offers a framework for sympathetic, constructive Leftist critique of the Poor People's Campaign.
Series: Neither Idiots Nor Useful: Our Politically Underachieving Liberal Churches (1 Articles, 1405 views)
Thursday, June 28, 2018Neither Idiots nor Useful: Our Politically Underachieving Liberal Churches (Part 1 of 2: Prophetic Promise) With civilization itself at stake, this two-part article makes a compelling case that political Left and liberal churches desperately need each other. Specifically, the "prophetic witness" of liberal churches could put a unique moral energy and organizing platform behind the Left's urgent political agenda. Importantly, this essay offers a framework for sympathetic, constructive Leftist critique of the Poor People's Campaign.
Series: Neither Idiots Nor Useful: Our Politically Underachieving Liberal Churches (1 Articles, 1405 views)
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Today's Poor People's Campaign: Too Important Not to Criticize The current revival of Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign is by light-years the most important movement in American politics--the first prospect for a REAL resistance attacking the corrupt system that gave us Trump. But to succeed, it's crucial that today's PPC stay true to the radical, truthtelling heritage of Dr. King. Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report recently published an important critique of PPC; I continue it.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018Today's Poor People's Campaign: Too Important Not to Criticize The current revival of Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign is by light-years the most important movement in American politics--the first prospect for a REAL resistance attacking the corrupt system that gave us Trump. But to succeed, it's crucial that today's PPC stay true to the radical, truthtelling heritage of Dr. King. Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report recently published an important critique of PPC; I continue it.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Political Dynamite: Poor People's Campaign and the Movement for a People's Party Combining MLK's resurrected Poor People's Campaign with the political strategy of the Movement for a People's Party could result in political dynamite--peacefully exploding a two-party system (and above all, a Democratic Party) that has served progressives badly.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018Political Dynamite: Poor People's Campaign and the Movement for a People's Party Combining MLK's resurrected Poor People's Campaign with the political strategy of the Movement for a People's Party could result in political dynamite--peacefully exploding a two-party system (and above all, a Democratic Party) that has served progressives badly.
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Saturday, March 31, 2018
Russiagate: Democrats' Giant Middle Finger to Climate Justice Other articles have rightly called out Russiagate as a lying narrative, a cover story for Democrats excusing electoral losses and dodging reform, and a diversion from vastly more important issues. This unique piece does more: it pinpoints Russiagate as the foremost enemy of the climate justice narrative. Further, it argues that all stakeholders in climate justice must unite to overthrow a lie that menaces human survival.
Saturday, March 31, 2018Russiagate: Democrats' Giant Middle Finger to Climate Justice Other articles have rightly called out Russiagate as a lying narrative, a cover story for Democrats excusing electoral losses and dodging reform, and a diversion from vastly more important issues. This unique piece does more: it pinpoints Russiagate as the foremost enemy of the climate justice narrative. Further, it argues that all stakeholders in climate justice must unite to overthrow a lie that menaces human survival.
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Weaponized Truth: The Indispensable Movement's Key to Success An article I didn't planned to write, this eloquent defense of the Indispensable Movement's "verbal revolution" against critics is perhaps my most potent ever. Fans of political satire--and of the Kama Sutra--will especially relish my delicious political usage of the euphemism "mouth Congress."
Wednesday, October 4, 2017Weaponized Truth: The Indispensable Movement's Key to Success An article I didn't planned to write, this eloquent defense of the Indispensable Movement's "verbal revolution" against critics is perhaps my most potent ever. Fans of political satire--and of the Kama Sutra--will especially relish my delicious political usage of the euphemism "mouth Congress."
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Meet Swampzilla: Indispensable's Duopoly-Killing "Monster" Meme This is Part 1 of a two-part series, "The Indispensable Movement Can Revolutionize Political Discourse." Part 1 introduces and explains Swampzilla, our movement's crucial meme vilifying our slimy and dangerous "Republocrat" duopoly. Part 2, titled "Indispensable Chic: The Hip Lingo of Grassroots Revolution," provides a sampler of the cool, catchy verbal weapons we've forged to discredit our "Republocrat" enemies.
Series: The Indispensable Movement Can Revolutionize Political Discourse (1 Articles, 1446 views)
Wednesday, September 27, 2017Meet Swampzilla: Indispensable's Duopoly-Killing "Monster" Meme This is Part 1 of a two-part series, "The Indispensable Movement Can Revolutionize Political Discourse." Part 1 introduces and explains Swampzilla, our movement's crucial meme vilifying our slimy and dangerous "Republocrat" duopoly. Part 2, titled "Indispensable Chic: The Hip Lingo of Grassroots Revolution," provides a sampler of the cool, catchy verbal weapons we've forged to discredit our "Republocrat" enemies.
Series: The Indispensable Movement Can Revolutionize Political Discourse (1 Articles, 1446 views)
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Monday, August 21, 2017
It's Party Time on the Titanic--and Screw the Slobs in Steerage An article of staggering ambition, this piece seeks to provoke creation of a movement that could literally save civilization. How? By making the policy corruption of our two major parties by Wall Street and "War Street" interests--a policy course that amounts to "partying on the Titanic"--the central focus of our political discourse.
Monday, August 21, 2017It's Party Time on the Titanic--and Screw the Slobs in Steerage An article of staggering ambition, this piece seeks to provoke creation of a movement that could literally save civilization. How? By making the policy corruption of our two major parties by Wall Street and "War Street" interests--a policy course that amounts to "partying on the Titanic"--the central focus of our political discourse.
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Monday, June 19, 2017
Climate Judases: Three Ways Democrats Betray Humanity This is Part 2 of my two-part series "Fighting the McResistance--for Climate's Sake," in which I argue that leaving Democrats' astroturf "McResistance" in charge of the anti-Trump resistance movement will be a CATASTROPHE for our climate. While Part 2 is written to be understood on its own, readers will grasp it even better if acquainted with the "Good Cop as Judas" argument I made in Part 1.
Series: Fighting the McResistance--for Climate's Sake (2 Articles, 4952 views)
Monday, June 19, 2017Climate Judases: Three Ways Democrats Betray Humanity This is Part 2 of my two-part series "Fighting the McResistance--for Climate's Sake," in which I argue that leaving Democrats' astroturf "McResistance" in charge of the anti-Trump resistance movement will be a CATASTROPHE for our climate. While Part 2 is written to be understood on its own, readers will grasp it even better if acquainted with the "Good Cop as Judas" argument I made in Part 1.
Series: Fighting the McResistance--for Climate's Sake (2 Articles, 4952 views)
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Saturday, June 10, 2017
Fighting the McResistance: Exposing Democrats' "Good Cop" as Judas In this two-part series, "Fighting the McResistance--for Climate's Sake," I make the compelling argument that Democrats' shallow, astroturf "McResistance" to Trump must be overthrown by a grassroots, anti-duopoly, Occupy-style movement. Namely, that the likely alternative is climate Armageddon. In this Part 1 piece, I argue that Democrats' patented ploy of playing Good Cop to Republicans' Bad Cop amounts to playing Judas.
Series: Fighting the McResistance--for Climate's Sake (2 Articles, 4952 views)
Saturday, June 10, 2017Fighting the McResistance: Exposing Democrats' "Good Cop" as Judas In this two-part series, "Fighting the McResistance--for Climate's Sake," I make the compelling argument that Democrats' shallow, astroturf "McResistance" to Trump must be overthrown by a grassroots, anti-duopoly, Occupy-style movement. Namely, that the likely alternative is climate Armageddon. In this Part 1 piece, I argue that Democrats' patented ploy of playing Good Cop to Republicans' Bad Cop amounts to playing Judas.
Series: Fighting the McResistance--for Climate's Sake (2 Articles, 4952 views)
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Friday, June 2, 2017
Resist the Duopoly--Because Judas's Party Can't Defeat Trump's This is the second and final part of my call-to-arms series, "The REAL Trump Resistance: An Anti-Duopoly Occupy." Given the importance I attach to its message, it's written to be understood on its own. But for still deeper understanding--especially for supporters of third parties--please read Part 1.
Series: The REAL Trump Resistance: An Anti-Duopoly Occupy (2 Articles, 5792 views)
Friday, June 2, 2017Resist the Duopoly--Because Judas's Party Can't Defeat Trump's This is the second and final part of my call-to-arms series, "The REAL Trump Resistance: An Anti-Duopoly Occupy." Given the importance I attach to its message, it's written to be understood on its own. But for still deeper understanding--especially for supporters of third parties--please read Part 1.
Series: The REAL Trump Resistance: An Anti-Duopoly Occupy (2 Articles, 5792 views)
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Third Parties' Only Hope: A New Anti-Duopoly Occupy This is Part 1 of a hard-hitting two-part series arguing that the REAL resistance to Donald Trump must take the form of a new anti-duopoly Occupy movement. Here, I argue that political third parties have a unique opportunity to become viable--but that their doing so depends on an Occupy-style movement proclaiming the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of BOTH major parties. Part 2 will explain HOW we can launch Occupy 2.0.
Series: The REAL Trump Resistance: An Anti-Duopoly Occupy (2 Articles, 5792 views)
Tuesday, May 30, 2017Third Parties' Only Hope: A New Anti-Duopoly Occupy This is Part 1 of a hard-hitting two-part series arguing that the REAL resistance to Donald Trump must take the form of a new anti-duopoly Occupy movement. Here, I argue that political third parties have a unique opportunity to become viable--but that their doing so depends on an Occupy-style movement proclaiming the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of BOTH major parties. Part 2 will explain HOW we can launch Occupy 2.0.
Series: The REAL Trump Resistance: An Anti-Duopoly Occupy (2 Articles, 5792 views)
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Friday, May 5, 2017
An Umbrella Narrative--and Party--for the Progressive Resistance Part 2 of the series "Successful Marketing for Political Revolutionaries," this article is the fullest and frankest article I know of related to the needed messaging and marketing for a viable third party. Though longer than I'd have liked, it compensates by really swinging for the fences--making a passionate appeal to the actual activist movers and shakers now working to create a viable third party.
Series: Successful Marketing for Political Revolutionaries (2 Articles, 5183 views)
Friday, May 5, 2017An Umbrella Narrative--and Party--for the Progressive Resistance Part 2 of the series "Successful Marketing for Political Revolutionaries," this article is the fullest and frankest article I know of related to the needed messaging and marketing for a viable third party. Though longer than I'd have liked, it compensates by really swinging for the fences--making a passionate appeal to the actual activist movers and shakers now working to create a viable third party.
Series: Successful Marketing for Political Revolutionaries (2 Articles, 5183 views)
