It’s interesting how sometimes when you are searching for one thing, you can stumble on another, almost randomly, and then find yourself wondering if it was coincidence or maybe the hand of fate. I thought about this while flying to San Pedro Sula in Honduras for a meeting with ACORN International organizers recently, as I read a strange and interesting document called, …
Month: July 2013
Workplace Occupations
Rock Creek The Kindle needed some juice and it was too early in the morning to get the converter humming, so I grabbed a book for a couple of hours that had been gathering dust at home, Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis by Kari …
Understanding Chavez by Understanding Alinsky?
Rock Creek I don’t know how many books I have now read about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers over the years. Maybe a dozen? Maybe two dozen? In the early ones fresh from the footsteps of the marches with the banners waving, the adulation was almost so thick that it was hard for an …