No Matter the Context, Listening is Always Central in Organizing

Community Organizing

New Orleans       When community organizing makes it into the mainstream, most often it’s duck-and-cover because trouble and confusion is coming as the critical content and context of organizing gets diluted and dumbed down for mass consumption.  With some trepidation I read a guest column in the Washington Post by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove who directs the …

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Museum Version Activism

Ideas and Issues

New York City       On our way to some meetings, we took a detour on a cold, windy, sunny, supposedly spring day in New York to the Museum of the City of New York.  We spent some time looking at their interactive displays on how to deal with the city’s housing and transportation issues and …

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