Mamas, Don’t Let Your Organizers Grow Up to be Developers

Community Organizing

Waveland    The activist and academically oriented quarterly journal, Social Policy, trades out subscriptions with a publication called Shelterforce, which, as the name indicates, specializes in housing related issues. A random email called “rooflines” that I get from time to time featured their best articles of the year.   Scrolling through, one piece caught my eye because …

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Learning from “Factory Man”

Ideas and Issues

Waveland     All year I kept reading that this book with the long, drawn out title, Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy was a “must read.” From the descriptions, it sounded a bit like an anti-globalization, “there’s something out there that might …

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