Movement Vision Lab is online

Our friends at the Center for Community Change have launched their Movement Vision Lab, an online space dedicated to promoting new ideas for the future, especially around a vision of "an active and inclusive society, a community based economy, and global justice." As the website explains, "The Movement Vision Lab collects ideas from across the United States and the world, from grassroots organization and think tanks and researchers - and you!"

The website has two key parts: an "Idea Lab" where people can read, rate, and add resources for 14 issue areas and a blog where, each week, a new topic will be in the spotlight. (This week's is Race and Racial Justice.) Also, check out the short (less than two minutes!) but powerful film showcased on the MVL home page, "A Tale of Power and Vision." (Click the image above to view it.)

The Center for Community Change is also looking forward to a big event in Des Moines, Iowa, next week. Five Democratic presidential candidates and as many as 5,000 Iowans will attend the "Heartland Presidential Forum: Community Values in Action" on December 1. It's being billed as the largest gathering of likely caucus goers before Iowa holds its first-in-the-nation presidential caucus on January 3, 2008. CCC is putting on the event with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and a host of local partners.