Dallas I was teamed up with Maude Hurd, an ACORN leader from Boston and teaching my 4-year old daughter to door knock in 1988 at a stop along the route in Mitchellville, Arkansas during ACORN’s Caravan for Justice to increase voter participation when Rev. Jesse Jackson was running for President. We made up a little …
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Ralph Nader’s Convergence, Billionaires, and Participation Nonprofits
Kiln Ralph Nader understood a huge amount about building self-sufficient operations. His original public interest projects were financed by the settlement he won from General Motors and his book, Unsafe at Any Speed. The Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) established in numerous large publicly funded universities shrewdly created capacity for consumer advocacy by winning …
Reading the Chief Organizer Reports in Tehran and Around the World
Chicago A little more than a decade ago, Azar Nafisi, an Iranian professor, author, and now ex-patriot, wrote a very enjoyable book called Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. It was a memoir obviously so it was about her own experiences before, during and after the revolution and what it was like to …