New Orleans According to a fascinating article by Damien Cave in the New York Times the families that have hunkered down and stayed in the Ciudad Juarez warzone in Mexico directly across the Rio from El Paso in Texas are frequently headed by generations of women and their children, welded to jobs and livelihood, they …
Category: Community Organizing
Sorry, Glenn, the Organizers’ Forum Dialogues are Only for Organizers!
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 …
Local Community News: AOL’s Patch
New Orleans I read the recent story in the Times about AOL’s $50M investment and grand hopes for Patch.com, a so-called hyper-local news source with wild interest. In these days of regular newspaper and TV news cutbacks what a great idea, especially for underserved communities: real community news! The “patch model” seems to be to …