What in the World!

Ideas and Issues

New York    As the late great Hunter Thompson, king of gonzo journalism, used to write, “…and then things began to get weird.”  Seems that some of this is everywhere around us now.  A couple of recent items ran the gamut of these items.  For example: *    Alex Rodriguez, mainly known as a baseball player, but …

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Cover Art

Ideas and Issues Personal Writings

New Orleans The “Katrina” book is slowly becoming a reality. Several weeks ago I reported that the rough, rough draft was finished. Now there are some pieces that have to be inserted and smoothed out on all of this quick “pipe laying” to make the whole thing come together, but clearly we are around the …

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School Strategies

ACORN Ideas and Issues

Chicago     I am participating in quite an exceptional event, almost unheard of in the organizing community in fact: a joint strategy session between two community organizing networks — PICO and ACORN — trying to struggle together to find new paths and successes in education organizing. About a dozen organizers from each organization are attending. …

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