Petaluma Two interesting meetings, one in San Jose and the other in the north bay city of Petaluma in Sonoma County brought the issues of immigrants, both documented and undocumented in California, into stark relief. I tracked down Davin Cardenas, co-director of the North Bay Organizing Project, and lead organizer for their tenant organizing for …
Month: May 2018
Hedge Fund Housing Horror Stories in California
San Jose At the University of California at Santa Cruz in the question and answer period after THE ORGANIZER, I got what has become a standard question about the role of social media in organizing. I’m always kind but clear. Social media is a fantastic and inexpensive communication tool that is invaluable for organizing, but …
Parsing Demonstrations to Movements to Organizations
Santa Cruz Let’s give a “A” for effort on this paper, regardless of quibbles about content. At least Beverly Gage, a Yale history professor, writing for the New York Times Magazine in a piece entitled “Cause and Effort” gave some props to social change and tried to introduce some of the problems and potential of …