https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09072019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAmsterdam The Department of Labor under the Trump administration is doing all it can to assure app-based tech companies from Uber, Deliveroo, and others that they will bend over backwards to shield them from classification as directly employed workers rather than independent subcontracts. Government agencies in an …
Category: Community Organizing
Rats, Mold, and Entitlements: A Party Embraces Community Organizing in Netherlands
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09062019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsHeerlen In the evening thirty party activists assembled at headquarters for the evening’s program. The introduction was straightforward. Ron Meyer, chairman of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands, made some remarks, as we sat in the front of the room on high chairs. I expressed my pleasure …
Tyranny of Structurelessness
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08262019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Having said for decades that in any group it is always possible, through observation and listening, to identify the organizers, the leaders, and the underlying structure, no matter how informal and supposedly anti-hierarchical and structureless the formation, I was thunderstruck to see the mention …