Boston If the only paper you can get in a roadside motel is USA Today, then by god that’s the paper I’m going to read, and so it was in Boston while marooned in Medford a short hike from Tufts. One interesting article was right on time the other day and it detailed …
Category: Community Organizing
Groping for Meltdown Clues
Boston There is a perverse and maddening fascination in being a stranger in a strange land, which I rediscovered sitting in the last row and listening to some very articulate and smart people grope for clues to explain the current, world financial crises at the opening session of the Tufts EPIIC International Symposium. The panel included …
Kenya’s Organizing Practitioners
Nairobi On my last day of this Nairobi trip I was honored to be the guest of a fascinating organization that I have written about before over the years, COPA-K — Community Organizing Practitioners Association of Kenya. This is that rarity in the world — a professional association of organizers. There are about 80 members. They …