Brighton One of the undercurrents of my long slough across Europe and the United Kingdom has been the close attention and excitement roused by the West Virginia teachers and their dramatic, and ultimately successful, strike. In Bulgaria, one of our number was from West Virginia and first called the plan to my attention as the …
Category: Community Organizing
Standing Room Only in Paris and Interesting Question about Free Speech
Paris What do I know? The young organizer was worried that the room we had for screening the documentary on ACORN called “The Organizer” in Paris was too small. More than 40 people had said they were coming on Facebook. I assured her we would be lucky to break 20 or 25, especially since the …
The Edifice Complex and the Tension between Intake and Outreach
Banska Stiavnica The small city of Banska Stiavnica was a rich, mining city in its heyday. The symbol of the city is two lizards, and the legend has it that a shepherd in the mountains saw them run under a rock. Turning over the rock, he saw one was covered in silver dust and the …