Alinsky and the Rightists

New Orleans Like a bad penny, it pops up again that rightwing activists like the Landrieu bungling James O’Keefe have spent hours poring through Saul Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals for tips as if it were a “how to” manual.  I’m constantly surprised to get flaming emails quoting one of Saul’s rules or another and [...]

Pink Sheeting One on Ones

New Orleans Obviously an article in the Times by Steven Greenhouse entitled, “Some Organizers Protest Their Union’s Tactics,” would catch my eye.  One reads it with some peril given the bricks still being thrown from one glass window or another between SEIU and UNITE HERE, but despite that caveat, it’s worth serious attention.  The [...]

Tubing on the Moei River

Chiang Mai One of the more interesting, and surprising, things we found ourselves watching with interest was the porous border crossing on the Moei River between Thailand and Burma.  The bridge was lightly trafficked above us as we saw an occasional foreign couple or straggler walking over, but beneath the bridge in the fast moving [...]

Organizers Burden

Bangkok The Organizers’ Forum delegation had two great meetings with organizers and the job before them was stunning and prodigious.  We had the opportunity to meet for several hours with five union organizers working to organize industrial plants along the eastern shore of Thailand.  We also got lucky and our trip coincided with a training [...]

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