New Orleans It isn’t exactly the answer to a popular trivia question, but there might be some head scratching by outsiders, someone from Mars, or an earnest future researcher trying to puzzle out an answer to the question of how a multi-year and multi-layered partnership developed between ACORN and Clean Water Action. As always, there’s …
Month: April 2018
Can We Get Hollywood, Educators & Politicians to Watch More Danish TV?
New Orleans Being home for a short spell, as a treat we’ve been watching some television before the lights go off. Recently, we’ve been catching an episode on an almost nightly basis of “Rita,” a series on Danish television about an anti-authoritarian, but deeply committed and wildly popular school teacher. Last year, I watched several …
The “Disappearing Organizer” and Accountability
New Orleans David Brooks, a columnist for the New York Times, has written an interesting piece arguing that there is a “new power structure.” This structure, he says, is non-hierarchical and decentralized with a diffusion of ownership and loose affiliations. He claims this new notion of building organizational formations responses to a new level of …