Chicago The Organizers’ Forum has been hosting a 2-day meeting of over forty community, labor and other organizers in a quick immersion discussion of new developments in political methodology here at Cenacle Retreat Center a few blocks from beautiful Lincoln Park along the Lakeshore. The sessions have gone remarkably well due in large part to well …
Category: Community Organizing
Looking Under the Hood
Kansas City: There is no small amount of excitement in writing about a significant victory in a serious and long-term fight as I did in reporting on the tentative agreement with H&R Block. The campaigns are so intense and riveting that once done, the report feels mundane. Partly because it is hard to adequately convey all …
Getting the Earned Income Tax Credit
Seattle & New Orleans: Tax day finally passed, and we were in it up to our ears this year! A casual conversation with Luz Vega-Marquis, President of the Marguerite Casey Foundation based in Seattle, Beth Rosales of the same, Drummond Pike of the Tides Foundation, and myself over lunch in the rain a little more than …