New Orleans Without having read the final paperwork on Locality’s winning proposal to train 500 community organizers and the final contract terms agreed to by the British government, it can be impossible to be sure how far afield the eventual program will evolve from the initial advocacy and intentions of Citizens UK. It is [...]
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New Orleans Nothing about the Cameron government “Big Society” initiative to insert community organizers into poor areas around the United Kingdom seemed very organic or likely to succeed once the real deal started to crystallize. Going from a 5000 organizer initiative over four years would mean producing an average of only 125 per year. [...] Dilcia Zevala giving the Tegucigalpa Report Tegucigalpa A critical feature to the annual international meeting of the ACORN International board and staff beginning last year in Lima and now with both excitement and trepidation is the reports from offices around the world on their progress. All of this is well and good, but [...] New Orleans I retweeted something last week where someone had said, “Glenn Beck takes the left more seriously than anyone else,” or words to that affect, simply because it was true. For all of his buffoonery and conspiracy theories, Beck is on to something: he knows community organizing is [...] Baltimore Catching up on reading on the plane was disturbing in big and small ways. How in the world has Obama so badly lost his groove? What happened to the understanding and instincts of an organizer, being able to listen, forge the rap and flyer that works, and lead through others? A piece by [...] New Orleans Driving back from a union bargaining session at the NASA Michoud facility I just missed a call from a 207 area code. Returning the call, it was a pleasant surprise to find the caller was none other than Nicholas von Hoffman, who is somewhat known to people now for his journalistic and [...] New Orleans Newspapers over the weekend from London to Washington and New York are full of stories about the increasing wages of the top dogs in the financial industries on Wall Street and the City of London. The estimates range from 10% to 25% hikes. Meanwhile we continue to struggle to figure out the most [...] Austin Austin still has the feel of a city on the bright side of the recession. Unemployment has hardly hit 6%. The airport is new and busy. Developers are still trying to build and finish projects, and community fights against them are real and important. I caught up with the fight to [...] |
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