New Orleans After days of work on campaigns and the principles of negotiations, the leaders of Amani United in Milwaukee were ready to practice what they had learned. The leaders divided into two groups, one representing the officials of the city’s transportation system and the other representing Amani United. The issue at hand was …
Category: Community Organizing
No Matter the Context, Listening is Always Central in Organizing
New Orleans When community organizing makes it into the mainstream, most often it’s duck-and-cover because trouble and confusion is coming as the critical content and context of organizing gets diluted and dumbed down for mass consumption. With some trepidation I read a guest column in the Washington Post by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove who directs the …
Organizers Traveling the Wayback Machine
New York City Showing the documentary, “The Organizer,” in Harlem, it was fun talking to old veterans, Jeff Elmer and Mariana Davenport, and hearing of others. Emma Graves-Fitzsimmons and I got a big laugh in the Q&A after the film when I acknowledged her as a daughter of organizers in the ACORN family after …