Reply #43: Bernard Weiner (Crisis Papers) on DU experience [View All]

[Bernard Weiner]

From 2001 on, DU posted every political analysis I sent them and, in doing so, helped keep me somewhat sane, and our movement pushing forward. In late-2002, Ernest Partridge and I founded CrisisPapers.org, and DU later published our essays on a regular basis every Tuesday under our own Crisis Papers logo. The DU/Crisis Papers meld has worked well for both websites. We so admire what the two Davids (Skinner, EarlG) and Elad have created: a lively, bustling forum for news, commentary and video. The effective, professional level achieved by DU is unlike what passes for a political marketplace elsewhere on the internet. The fact that William Pitt, one of our movement's most passionate and felicitous writers, is a (mostly) regular here is a testament to the caliber of activist journalism DU attracts.

As some of you have noticed, Ernie and I have taken a hiatus from CP/DU writing. After nearly seven years of pounding out political essays -- more than 500 combined -- we desperately needed a break. But we'll be back, at intervals, and maybe will return to regular contributing somewhere down the line.