New Orleans Last year at a meeting organized for nonprofits by Tulane University, there was furious head scratching when everyone was asked what workshop they would volunteer to lead, and I had written down my willingness to do one on the importance of structure. Asked why, I argued that too many organizations without thinking or …
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Housing, Street Sellers, Rif Protests, and Political Prisoners
Casablanca We could almost say this was an “easy” day for the Organizers’ Forum, because we finished earlier than usual, but we packed it full. We started talking at length to an organizer-activist about the organizing of a housing committee to protect against evictions and displacements of lower income families, many of whom had traditionally …
Welcome to Morocco
Casablanca Beginning in 2002, the Organizers Forum began its International Dialogues with a thrilling visit to Sao Paulo, Brazil in the exhilarating days before the first primary where Lula de Silva from the Workers’ Party would be elected to begin what everyone felt would be a transformative period in the country, if he were actually …