New York City After a long day of meetings in the big city, I got back to my priceline special in Chinatown on the Bowery to find a curious email from a conservative blogger asking me about the date of posting for the Organizers’ Forum announcements on the home page www.organizersforum.org. I wasn’t sure what …
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“Gradually Organizing Everything” in La Matanza Buenos Aires
New York City There’s an indescribable joy that comes from organizing successfully and the first time it hits you is a thrill you chase the rest of your life. I can’t not share this. A new organizer in Buenos Aires working in the mega-slum of La Matanza (the Massacre) in the province sent me an …
Wiki-worlds Need More Women & Less Snarky-ness!
Toronto What is it about the Wiki-worlds that seems to encourage no boundaries, let it rip, snarky-ness? I don’t get it, but I’m pretty sure it needs to be fixed. Two cases in point: New York Times editor Bill Keller’s piece on Julian Assange and Wikileaks and the “calling all women” initiative at Wikipedia’s 10th …