Randy Shaw

Randy Shaw is the Director of San Francisco's Tenderloin Housing Clinic and the Editor-in-Chief of the online daily newspaper "Beyond Chron." He is the author of three books, "Beyond the Fields", "The Activist's Handbook", and "Reclaiming America".

The Media Crap Shoot: Mandela’s Death Elbows Aside Fast-Food Worker Protests

Fast Food Worker Protest — Building campaigns through organizing rather than protests avoids unforeseen emergence of competing stories.

Progressives Have No Reason for Pessimism

Randy Shaw: The real message of the Obamacare website delay is that in the age of the Internet and social media, the traditional media still has the capacity to create and sustain a false political narrative—and to get progressives to believe it.

President Kennedy’s False Legacy

Randy Shaw: The 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s November 22, 1963 assassination reminds us of how thoroughly myth has overtaken the facts in his legacy.

Want to Increase Homelessness? GOP Plans New Affordable Housing Cuts

Randy Shaw: House Republicans are planning to again play Scrooge. In this case, it means turning their backs on the housing needs of millions of ill-housed and homeless

Progressives Must Regain Control of the National Political Debate

Randy Shaw: Progressives have the public on their side, and can readily put the GOP on the defensive. But this requires promoting and mobilizing around the issues that energize progressives and a public majority, not constantly playing defense on issues framed by opponents.

What All Progressive Campaigns Can Learn from the Marriage Equality Movement

Randy Shaw: As many despair over U.S. politics moving backward on poverty and inequality, the marriage equality movement’s remarkable success deserves greater attention.

The Latest Trend: Ignoring the Federal Govt’s Anti-Poverty Role

Randy Shaw: The longer homelessness and family poverty continues, the more their true causes are forgotten or ignored. Such is clearly true with the nation’s homelessness and affordable housing crisis.

West Coast, East Coast: The Shrinking Local Electorate

Randy Shaw: It’s time to end the de facto voter suppression caused by local election cycles that most voters ignore. Ballot initiatives — put up for vote during state and national election cycles — should be used to put an end to this once worthy but now undemocratic political process.