New Orleans In organizing the process of strengthening weak ties to build the strong welds of solidarity can be very personal, tediously time consuming and therefore prohibitively expensive, and involve huge scale human engineering in order to create deep organizations, which is partly why organizers use other tools like actions and demonstrations to achieve scale …
Month: July 2012
The Poor Will be Among Us, and Corporations Will be Selling Them Crap!
New Orleans When I wrote Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families, with my editor’s encouragement I labored pretty hard to make the case that major corporations understood the importance of citizen wealth or income security for lower income families and some had in fact fine tuned their business models to live and …
USA Poverty: Why Can’t We End it? Answer: Don’t Want to!
New Orleans I’ve know Peter Edelman since my days as an organizer for the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) at the end of the 1960’s. He was a policy centered advocate for many of our positions and gave our organizing some credibility when we needed it. My respect grew for him when he resigned as a …