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Topic subjectThat wasn't it at all. I'll admit I didn't properly articulate my frustration
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12701518, That wasn't it at all. I'll admit I didn't properly articulate my frustration
Posted by John Forte, Sat Jan-17-15 10:40 AM
MiQl was the only person who provided me with any meaningful information. (Goldmind did offer a couple profiles after I took him to task for his condescension).

Here's the thing, there still isn't a great degree of transparency out there. I researched some of the orgs from the link miQl so graciously provided and this is what I found:

http://dreamdefenders.org/vest/about-us/
http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/
http://operationhelporhush.org/category/blog/
http://millennialau.tumblr.com/
https://twitter.com/FF_STL


I hope these orgs are doing great work, but other than Operation Help or hush which exists to help protesters from other organizations (a noble cause) these groups have vague mission statements and zero transparency. They don't list any officers or information about where they're based. I don't think that's a meaningful way to build a coalition.

What I took away from MiQl's post were these three organizations are doing meaning ful work with transparency

http://www.gatheringforjustice.org/about
http://colorofchange.org/about/#
http://www.mhoodies.org/about

This is incredibly useful information, and it came from one reply in this 100+ reply post. And immediately thanked him for the info. I don't see how you got "people provided you with information that you willfully ignored" from that. Go back and re-read the post. You'll find far more snark and condescension than meaningful information from those in the know.