The War That Cried Wolf (Apr. 2003, 2 pages). Based on this article, Mr. Gordon appeared as a guest on WRKO 680-AM's "Morning Show" with former Rep. Peter Blute (R-MA) on Friday morning April 11 2003.
The Great American Boycott : Jesse participated in protests supporting immigration rights, and organized some publicity. He made a radio talk-show appearance on WTKK 96.9 FM's Michael Graham Show at approx. 4:45 PM to 4:50 PM, discussing Cambridge's rally, Cambridge's immigrant voting rights, the difference between illegal wrongs and illegal prohibitions. The host concluded by calling Jesse "a lying sack of fertilizer" which Jesse interprets as having been successful in presenting the progressive viewpoint to a conservative audience. (May 1 2006, 2 pages)
Issues - 2006: issues coverage for 33 Senate races, plus voting records of House incumbents (2005-2006, 585 pages)
The Fourth Oil War: Our oil dependency got us into the War on Terror and condemns us to decades of war (2002, 2 pages)
Monitoring & Evaluation of Rural Watershed Councils For the North American Fund for Environmental Cooperation, successes and failures in starting cooperative councils to solve watershed-wide pollution and development issues. (1998, 180 pages)
Watershed Economics: Agribusiness versus Recreation For the The Buffalo River Stewardship Foundation, an analysis of pollution and recreation trends on Arkansas' Buffalo River, America's first National River. A complete economic and political evaluation. (1996, 92 pages)
Executive Summary 2-page summary of "Watershed Economics: Agribusiness versus Recreation"
Buffalo River press clippings, quotations in "American Whitewater", "Earth Island Journal", and the "Newton County Times"
Financing Energy Conservation Overcoming Barriers to Implementing the Massachusetts Clean State Initiative: A study for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (1994, 87 pages)
Using the Market to Reduce Global Warming Applicability of Tradable Emissions Permits to a Global Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program: An analysis of issues facing Global Warming treaty negotiations, and a comparison of US sulfur dioxide emission permits as a model for an international carbon dioxide emissions market (1991 and 1993, 34 pages)
Modern Malthusianism Book Review of Paul Kennedy's "Preparing for the Twenty-First Century" (1993, 5 pages)
Pioneers in Online Politics: Nonpartisan Political Web Sites in the 2000 Campaign, a study by George Washington University's Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet - featuring OnTheIssues, VoteMatch, and Speakout as models, plus interview with Jesse. (Aug. 2004, 72 pages, PDF)
Nonpartisan Poltical Web Sites: Best Practices Primer, a companion manual by GWU's IPDI, also featuring OnTheIssues.org and Jesse (Aug, 2004, 38 pages, PDF)
The 2004 Democratic National Convention -- Jesse had a blogger press pass, and appeared on the show "The Connection," about bloggers at the DNC, WBUR 90.9 FM, on July 26 2004.
CROMERRR Critique: Comments from the American Water Works Association on a proposed EPA rule for electronic report submissions (2001, 25 pages, primary author). Federal Register describing EPA rule.
Reviews of Issues2000.org (Jesse was the Content Manager for Issues2000.org / Speakout.com):
Los Angeles Times, October 26, 2000: "They're like dating services for politics."
BizReport.com, June 22, 2000: "SpeakOut.com Acquires Issues2000.org"
The Palm Beach Post, Feb. 9, 2000: "Forbes and I Like-Minded? That Gores Me."
Technological Libertarianism Why technology policy should focus on a free market, and what the government should (and shouldn't) do to keep technology progressing (1994, 7 pages)
"Meet the New Boss?": "The left-wing conspiracy tries its hand at urban politics": including a mention of Jesse's run for City Council, and featuring several groups (DFA-Boston, PDC, PDM) which Jesse co-founded. Boston Phoenix, May 12, 2005
part 1, part 2
Progressive movement in Massachusetts: Jesse's informational website on the activities of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee (April-May 2005, 32 pages)
Not One Damn Dime Day: Jesse publicized a boycott of consumer spending on Bush's inauguration day. This included an appearance on KPFK Radio Pacifica's "Tuesday Live", 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara (7 PM - 8 PM PST, Jan. 4); on Alan Colmes' Fox News Live (11 PM - 11:45 EST, Jan 14); and numerous other appearances. Article appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Jan 5; in USA Today on Jan. 12; and in 150 other newspapers.
Dean For DNC: Jesse organized a petition in support of Howard Dean for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, which included 1,000 signatures with comments sent to every DNC member in Massachusetts. (Dec. 2004, 85 pages)
The Mass Scorecard: Jesse was the lead analyst on this voter information website resulting from the May 2003 Accountability Amendment. (Sep. 2004, 160 pages)
Valley Advocate: Mass Scorecard in Western Mass perspective, Nov. 2004. (2 pages)
Press Release: Upon public release, Sept. 1, 2004. (1 page PDF)
Democrats and Greens: Panel discussion at Massachusetts Democratic State Committee meeting on Green outreach (Nov. 2003, 2 pages)
Ten Key Values : Comparison of Mass Greens' platform to Mass Dems' platform, point-by-point. MS-Word version in 2-page printable format.
Jesse ran a survey of Dean Meetups (the political phenomenon of 2003), analyzing 600 attendees' demographics, political preferences, and views on the effectiveness of Meetups -- the first analysis of Meetups since their entry into the political realm.
The Rise of Open-Source Politics - The Nation cited Jesse's Meetup Survey facts (bottom of page 2) on age and donations of Meetup attendees. (Page 123456, Nov. 4, 2004)
Accountability Resolution -- scorecard of elected officials voting record against the Massachusetts Democratic Party Platform (a progressive document).
Accountability Amendment which passed, 60%-40%, at the 2003 Massachusetts Democratic Issues Convention.
EOC Analysis : Jesse served on the Testimony Subcommittee of the Mass Dems' Election and Outreach Commission. This is his analysis of public input about how to change the Democratic Party in light of their ongoing gubernatorial losses. (Oct. 2003, 13 pages) (MS-Word)
Reich supporters vow to press the liberal cause: Boston Globe reporting on the 2003 Democratic Caucuses in Cambridge. Jesse served as the Reich organizer in Cambridge from 2002-2003. (Feb. 2003, 1 page)
Towards democracy at State House: Rep. Anne Paulsen's activities on rule changes to reduce Speaker Finneran's stranglehold on power. (Jan. 2003, 2 pages)
Opening the Oligarchy: How the Democratic Party closes itself to outsiders. (Dec. 2002, 2 pages)
Same article adapted for Sharon, Mass. Jesse also appeared on the "Newsmakers" segment of the Tony Gill Show, WAIC 91.9 FM, Springfield MA, regarding this article. (Dec. 24 2002, 22 minutes)
Voter Registration: How to beat the political insiders at their own game. (Sept. 2002, 2 pages)
Conventional Wisdom: A play-by-play for the Democratic Party Convention. (May 2002, 2 pages)
Trolley Square road redesign: Jesse's redesign plan, which as of 2005 was accepted as the basis for the City of Cambridge's official design proposal. (2005, 2 pages)
Space Opera and Jesse's ad - Jesse and his son performed in the Stormtrooper Chorus for the North Cambridge Family Opera Company. (2004, 3 pages)
