All Tactics No Strategy:  Duck and Cover!

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01072020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       We saw the tactic swallow the strategy in the Occupy movement.  We just discussed the situation in Hong Kong over the last seven months where the tactics and adaptations have been brilliantly effective, but the strategy for victory is still unknown and perhaps tragically …

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Unita Blackwell’s Life and Work is a Beacon for Us All

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       At the end of every year, there’s a section in the New York Times about the “lives they lived” that looks at people large and small that died during the past year.  Unita Blackwell a civil rights warrior from Mississippi, born in 1933, died …

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Drones are Scary

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01042020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans    For their Scorpio birthdays, mi companera and mi hija both got robots.  They aren’t really robots in the “Star Wars” sense.  The name of this thing though is Shark-Ion Robot, although the generic name I gather is “roomba,” and Shark is just what this one …

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