Boston Running around Boston the last several days I’ve met great professors and students at Boston University School of Social Work, the Heller School at Brandeis, and the Planning Department at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. It’s fascinating to hear what people are thinking when they begin asking questions after I tell them about …
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Remembering Springfield Years Later
Springfield I haven’t been back in Springfield, Massachusetts since 2009. Driving from the airport in Hartford, nothing looked that different at 1 AM in the morning, but that’s pretty faint praise. The Basketball Hall of Fame is prominently located along the expressway. Mass Mutual Insurance company is still large enough to have its old highway …
Answering the Hard Questions about Movements and Organizations
New Orleans In Lafayette, Louisiana after the screening of the documentary, “The Organizer,” a question was phrased differently than I heard in New Orleans or Woodstock, New York, when I fielded questions after people watched the movie, but despite the sentence construction, the sentiment was much the same. A woman asked, given the excitement and …