New Orleans Let’s talk about another resource and information tool today available at organizingupgrade.com. This is a theme we’ll keep coming back to in these times of trouble and turmoil. I’m not sure if organizingupgrade.com is a new project or simply new to me. I stumbled on it recently when someone recommended I look at …
Month: January 2017
Digital “Tools” for Organizing Protests and Building the Movements that Follow
New Orleans Zeynep Tufekci, a professor at the University of North Carolina, wrote an interesting op-ed in the Times, headlined, “Does a Protest’s Size Matter?” The answer is easy: of course it does! But, that’s not the point she wants to underline. The professor wants to underscore the fact that a protest about something is …
O’Keefers Scammed While Trying to Provoke Violence at Women’s March
New Orleans Making a list of things I got wrong last year, one has to be my call that we had finally heard the last of James O’Keefe, the video scammer and promoter of “alternative facts” about people and organizations for Brietbart and the alt-right. No matter how many of his agit-props fizzle out like …