Deep Cove, British Columbia: The methodology of organizing is constantly changing, and in some cases it seems to be moving in circles as much as onward and upward. The Community Leadership Centre organizers had two fascinating back-to-back experiences over the last several days. First, we took a road trip to Seattle and spent a day with …
Month: May 2004
Legislating Labor Settlements
Vancouver: In the first morning of the training for the first cycle of organizers in our new Community Leadership Centre, we got lucky – at least if you can call it that. On the front page of the Vancouver Sun there was a huge headline and giant pictures heralding a late night settlement the night before …
Bankrupting the Middle Class
New Orleans: Looking at the increasing stratification apparent in higher education leads one inexorably to the fact that even as poor and working families are locked out of a better future, many middle class families are falling rapidly on the slippery economic slope. Statistics included in several articles recently in The American Prospect made this point …