Grenoble Over the last week from Birmingham to Edinburgh to London and now in Grenoble, it’s amazing how often conversations and questions focus as much on organizational change as organizing programs and prospects. Talking to Martin Smith, the organizing director for the GMB in London, he made the point as clearly as anyone saying that …
Month: December 2014
Republicans Can’t Shut Down Congress? Well, Let’s Take Some Licks at ACORN!
London Two cold, crisp, but clear days in London, so I should have known that it would be raining as I head for the 445 trains that will put me in France later this morning to meet with more groups. One almost predicts the other. Same for the Republicans, it seems. The radicals don’t seem …
Voter and Community Suppression Coming to United Kingdom
London Talking to someone in the United Kingdom the other day, they made a comment that any new “bad” idea in the USA germinates for a couple of years and then pops up in a modified form in Britain. Yikes! One good, bad example can be found in the new voter suppression policies that are …