About Portside - Stuart Acuff, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Bill
Fletcher, Michael Lerner, Nelson Lichtenstein


Portside has performed a tremendously valuable service for
America's progressives. You brought news and issues every
day to us that we needed for us to take action. I can tell
you absolutely that Portside helped introduce folks to and
make the case for the Employee Free Choice Act and helped us
create a nationwide foundation of support.

Stewart Acuff
Chief of Staff and Assistant to the President of the Utility
Workers Union of America (UWUA); former Director of
Organizing for the AFL-CIO

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I want you to know not just how grateful I am personally for
Portside but that your posts rarely dead-end in my mailbox.
When the articles you aggregate speak to the issues I care
about most -- gender equality, social justice, and the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- I disseminate them to
hundreds of activists, writers, opinion leaders, and policy
makers, many of whom have told me they would otherwise never
have seen those articles. From the feedback I've received I
can reliably report that my recipients likewise disseminate
the articles to their lists.  So the impact of your efforts
is exponential.  Many thanks to all who volunteer their time
to keep Portside afloat in today's politically turbulent
sea.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Author, activist, Founding Editor, Ms. magazine

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Portside provides our movement with a consistent digest of
material that is an invaluable resource for the Left.  The
articles represent a broad range of viewpoints, reflecting
the experiences and analyses of diverse social movements and
political actors.  I find myself forwarding the links that
Portside releases and personally utilizing the articles in
order to help me better understand major debates and events
underway.  Portside is invaluable and I always look forward
to receiving the posts.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.,
BlackCommentator.com

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Portside is an amazing resource for all of us who wish to
heal, repair and transform the world. It consistently finds
and reprints the most exciting political articles on the
web, saving me and many others countless hours of research
every day. It tends to pick articles that are non-sectarian
and smart. Congratulations and deep thanks to those who do
the hard work of making this such a valuable resource.

Rabbi Michael Lerner
Editor, Tikkun Magazine  www.tikkun.org
Chair, The Network of Spiritual Progressives
(www.spiritualprogressives.org)
Rabbi, Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in S.F. and Berkeley
(www.beyttikkun.org)
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Portside has become part of the architecture of my political
and news-gathering life. It is so useful, so timely, so
conductive to intelligent discussion that it seems virtually
indispensable, as well as a great convenience, to anyone
interested in contemporary politics and labor. There is no
razzle dazzle here, as with some other web sites, just a
solid understanding of what news and analysis people on the
left need on a near daily basis.

Nelson Lichtenstein
Professor of History
Director, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy
UC Santa Barbara

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