Rotterdam My last night in Paris I had an assignment. There was a seminar being moderated by a longtime ally and friend of the organization in France, and, arguably, the expert on community organizing in the country and much of Europe, Julien Talpin. The Justice Ensemble’s Adrien Roux had to get back to Lyon …
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Recession Pain is Not Equal
Paris This is definitely new. Having a US president welcome a recession is unique, especially after the Biden term where we read, almost daily, about the efforts to avoid one or find a “soft landing,” whatever that might have been. Now in the Trump version of the “end times,” we’re expected to embrace …
Marching against Pesticides and the Resistance at Home
Paris We were on the move around the world this April Saturday, whether in countless cities across America in opposition to Trump and the many outrages of his new administration, or in other cities, like Paris, where I joined ACORN affiliate, Justice Ensemble, to protest and make demands around pesticides poisoning land and …