New Orleans The other day when I had seen a piece touting the first ever national Tea Party Convention in Nashville in February, I looked at the calendar, noted the date, and sent an email to a friend in LA suggesting we go check it out. I know now I must have been kidding [...]
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New Orleans It’s amazing to me how many people came up to me over the last week on the East Coast and mentioned having read my recent blog about “Pink Sheeting and One-on-One’s” in UNITE-HERE and elsewhere in the labor movement. Google analytics tells me that this is most frequently visited current item on [...] Memphis Even though I wasn’t speaking at the University of Memphis about Citizen Wealth until Monday evening, it was worth flying in the predawn on Sunday to be able to take advantage of Professor Ken Reardon’s offer to meet with twenty community leaders who wanted to talk over dinner about how to push Memphis [...] Washington I’ve often told this story. It’s about a big, rookie mistake I made as a green organizer of 20 years old trying to figure out how to be head organizer of Massachusetts Welfare Rights when total craziness broke out between two contending groups of leadership. Because of some idealistically pure view of staff and [...] Montreal What a great day in Montreal! There are so few chances to have good spirited and deeply serious conversations about organizing down to the level of what we have really accomplished and our serious challenges, that one meeting after another seemed a gift. Rolling off the road, Jill O’Reilly, director of Ottawa ACORN, and [...] Baltimore An email comes from the POTUS or President Obama as he’s more widely known, and you think, gee, something’s up. Maybe they are taking this fight seriously for a change? But, then you remember this is just an email, which is different from a real fight. Nonetheless those who are intent of fear mongering and [...] New Orleans We saw two back-to-back powerful movies, Sin Nombre and Gomorrah, both of which spoke profoundly and movingly to our work and why it is so life-and-death to our people. Sin Nombre was an extra treat because the writer and director, Cary Fukunaga, was in the audience and answered questions at the end [...] |
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