New Orleans Blaming the victim may be more American than apple pie at this point. Apple pie is less and less a staple of the American diet, but blaming the victims seems to be the default mode for institutions large and small that are unable to correct their cultures. It is inarguable that the Catholic …
Month: March 2012
A Window into the Reality of Organizing in Nairobi’s Korogocho
New Orleans Often it’s hard to describe what ACORN International’s organizing is really like in mega-slums around the world and the very different challenges our organizers face in building effective and potentially powerful membership run and funded community organizations. Last week ACORN Kenya had scheduled a large rally in Korogocho, the 2nd largest mega-slum of …
Environmental Funders Backing Losing Top Down Strategy
New Orleans Somehow I had missed the report when it first came out, but Robert Nunn in Little Rock connected me to Peter Montague’s explosive summary in The Huffington Post laying a huge weight for the failure of the environmental movement to win anything of major significance in recent decades squarely on the shoulders of big …