New Orleans  Rushing to get ready to be on the road to India and Bangladesh for a couple of weeks, it there are signs of creative ferment everywhere.        Last night eating dinner at Mandina’s with 15 or more Cornell University graduate students in planning, architecture, and art with Professor George Frantz who …

New Orleans There is no denying that it is hard to teach old dogs new tricks, but in organizing if we don’t learn some new ways, we stay stuck in the muck, whether it’s using Facebook for mobilizing volunteers in Buenos Aires or rappers, like Timbaland to help support our organizing in Dharavi in Mumbai …

Los Angeles Listening to the story of the development of the organizing campaign for car washers in Los Angeles (there are up to 15,000 such workers in the county), my ears picked up when the organizing director mentioned that they students with UCLA had meticulously analyzed the peak traffic at car washes. Not surprisingly perhaps …