Mumbai Around the table were our key leaders from the Federation of Associations of Maharashtra (FAM), the huge traders organization that had been with us since the beginning of the India FDI Watch Campaign, the leader of the Congress of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) in Mumbai, the head of the hawkers and the mathadi …
Category: Community Organizing
Rebranding Community Organizing
Mumbai In the wild, web-by way of these things, I got an email from Jose Manual Escobido working with El Paso ACORN sending me a comment he thought would interest me about “rebranding community organizing” written by Lisa Ranghelli, now working with the National Center for Responsive Philanthropy in Washington, DC. We know Lisa …
Money for Change
Washington I had heard about Galludet, the nationally known college for the deaf forever, but this was my first opportunity to be here on this small, beautifully appointed campus in the northeastern section of the District. It turned out to be an ideal place for almost 40 organizers to convene for the Organizers’ Forum spring …