I've Started a Substack -- Here's Why It Matters to You

After twenty-three years of publishing OpEdNews, I'm doing something new.

Ì've launched a Substack about the project I started 16 months ago., it's the most important project I've ever worked on. The Arc of Justice Alliance -- AJA -- is a platform designed to do something that has never been done: give the tens of thousands of organizations working for justice, equality, and human dignity the infrastructure to actually find each other, share resources, and coordinate. Not another advocacy organization. A utility. The connective tissue the movement has always needed and never had.

Here's something I'm happy to share with you: if you've been a reader or supporter of OpEdNews over the years, you helped make this possible. Populum -- the software platform built to power OpEdNews -- turns out to be extraordinarily capable. AJA is being built on those same tools, refined and extended for a much larger purpose. What you supported here is now becoming the foundation for something that could help transform how the movement for a better world operates.

The Substack is where I'm documenting the building of it -- the thinking, the decisions, the philosophical frameworks, the mistakes, the breakthroughs. In public. Because building this in the open is itself an act of the bottom-up values I wrote a book about and which AJA is founded on.

But here's what I really need from you: feedback. Ideas. Your experience as an organizer, writer, donor, reader who has watched this movement for years. AJA is being built bottom-up and that means the people who will use it should help shape it.

Two posts are already up -- an introductory post and one on the Powell Memo and what David Sirota found in the archives, the next one will be on the nine intellectual frameworks behind AJA's design.

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