Organizational Service and Autonomy

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 [...]

Healthcare Reform by Email

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 [...]

Ehrenreich Nails Sorry Safety Net

New Orleans On my current obsessive Citizen Wealth beat in the heart of the current depression, it was bittersweet reading this morning as the unparalleled Barbara Ehrenreich excoriated the current administration and the total fallacies that have now been exposed in lack of support for the suddenly poor or the ongoing destitute.  I’m going [...]

Sin Nombre and Gomorrah

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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