July 29, 2021 Little Rock How about some good news for a change? Unbelievably, this is a silver lining attached to the tragic clouds of the pandemic. A comprehensive research project by the Urban Institute found that: The number of poor Americans is expected to fall by nearly 20 million from 2018 …
Author: Chief Organizer
Shutting the Campus Down for the Black Student Union
Black Student Union members and supporters outside the UW Administration Building July 28, 2021 New Orleans I skim the Arts section of the New York Times. As I was taking it to recycling yesterday, something caught my eye. It was a picture of young Black men raising their fists in front of a …
The Tragic Results of Limited Governmental Capacity
July 27, 2021 New Orleans As the clock ticks to the final days of the national eviction moratorium and the beginning of what many predict will be the eviction tsunami, this housing crisis joins the long line of other crises we have experienced, including almost everything with the pandemic, as case studies in …
The Little Things Have Messages that Matter
July 25, 2021 Pearl River In the polarizing struggle over Covid-19 and lifesaving vaccinations, the repeated call has been to “listen to the science.” The same cry is heard about climate change and global warming. People obviously decide when and where to listen. Maybe rather than debating about this person’s view or the other, …
Who Represents a Community?
July 24, 2021 Pearl River Who really represents a community and can legitimately speak for the interests of a community has long been a critical and contentious question in community organizing. As organizers who seek to build mass organizations, there have been two major schools of work. One has been to create legitimacy by …