New Orleans This is a bit unusual for the Chief Organizer’s Report, but a piece by Steven Thrasher in The Guardian, published in the United Kingdom, gives progressives a better understanding of what is at stake in the billionaires’ war against free speech, the poor, and really all of us. Hang with me, because this …
Month: June 2016
Does the New Overtime Rule Really Affect Nonprofits and Organizers?
New Orleans Randy Shaw, the executive director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic and its burgeoning empire, first challenged me to think about whether the new FLSA overtime guidelines would prevent any future prospects of building a farmworkers’ movement or an ACORN, both of which famously focused on building an army of volunteer and professional organizers …
The Passing of the Champ, Muhammed Ali, and Everyone’s Highlight Reels
New Orleans It’s not like if we had thought about it that we didn’t all know the day was coming, steadily, softly, but still, like all deaths, the passing of the great boxer, Muhammed Ali, at 74 in Arizona still surprises. In his own way Ali stood for an entire generation in all his complexity. …