With some self-satisfaction, we pat ourselves on the back and recognize the important role that MyLeftNutmeg played in Ned Lamont’s campaign and in shaping the national discussions about Iraq in the 2006 election cycle. Those of us interested in the history of great writers from Connecticut may look back to great writers like Mark Twain or to the present day with writers like Wally Lamb, and several others that participated in Poets and Writers for Avery this past Sunday. Some of us, however, may want to look towards the future.
Nation Magazine recently had its second annual Nation Student Writing Contest. Two of the five finalists came form our fine state. Ned Resinkoff’s essay, Corporations Versus Democracy was one of the finalists. Last year, Ned was a senior at Middletown High School, and also did yeoman’s work helping with Ned Lamont’s campaign.
Jason Kaye wrote A Different Sort of War on Terror, which was also a finalist. Jason is a junior at Weston High School. Let us all congratulate Ned and Jason for their great essays.
(Cross posted at MyLeftNutmeg)
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 10/08/2004 - 12:10 (Check me out!)
(Originally published as a book review on Amazon)
The other day I received my copy of The Power of Many by Christian Crumlish. I don’t recall exactly when I first met Christian online. The earliest emails that I can find have from him are from December 2003. During this time, I was working as a volunteer for Howard Dean’s presidential campaign.
In particular, I was working with DeanSpace, an effort to help many small groups easily set up powerful interconnected websites. A lot has happened since then. DeanSpace has evolved into CivicSpace. Kerry is now the Democratic nominee. My wife is now a candidate for State Representative in Connecticut. Many of us have been using our experiences from the Dean campaign to help other campaigns, and many people are fishing around for a good book to try and understand how the internet is changing politics and all aspects of our lives.
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 10/07/2004 - 10:17 (Check me out!)
When my wife decided to run for State Representative, we talked a lot about using this as a means to get more people involved in the political process.
Joel Roger's article in The Nation, only served to reinforce my desire to work towards increasing political involvement of progressives.
One idea on increasing involvement is to write the story of Kim's campaign, perhaps ultimately as a book, that people would find an enjoyable and inspiring read.
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