New Orleans Being on the road is a little like having a “delay switch” on information and the mess and mayhem of life and business. I used to joke years ago about one way to hide information from me was to send it through an attachment! And, so it is [...]
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Vietnamese Organizers exchanging with the Organizers' Forum of 2010 New York City After a long day of meetings in the big city, I got back to my priceline special in Chinatown on the Bowery to find a curious email from a conservative blogger asking me about the date of posting for the Organizers’ [...] Toronto Fran Piven is a brilliant scholar and political theorist, still vitally engaged Glenn Beck crazy about Fran Piven at the cutting edges of her work while still affiliated with CUNY’s Graduate Center, and someone I count as colleague and friend over our 40 years. We spoke months ago. She called for advice about how to [...] Houston In San Francisco I had spent a lot of time talking to Tides people about “hate speech” as purveyed by Glenn Beck and supported by Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, and the corporate sponsors which led to an attempted attack on their offices thwarted by good police intervention. The attacks on Wikileaks founder and [...] ACORN Canada members Preeti and Pascal with Wade. Vancouver At Douglas College in New Westminster, hard by Vancouver, more than 30 ACORN Canada members and friends, gathered to watch the Dharavi documentary, WASTE, on ACORN International’s organizing of waste pickers, and to dig deep in their pockets to support our organizing in Latin America, [...] New Orleans It’s amazing how we become inured to the ridiculous, even when it is abusive and preposterous. That’s my cut on Glenn Beck and his ranting, especially when he evokes me as anti-christ and revolutionary. Over the last couple of years, whenever I would mention the absurdity of it all, too often it would [...] |
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