Sofia Organizing is somewhere on the spectrum between craft, trade, and art, so to keep even, much less ahead, of developments in the work, it’s important to pick up tips and examine the “nuts and bolts” wherever you can. Conversations and observations in Bulgaria were providing me a laundry list of lessons. On a lunch …
Category: Community Organizing
Fighting Back the Fear of Voter Registration
Santa Fe After watching the “The Organizer” and hearing questions at the Santa Fe Film Festival, several of us were having lunch, and invariably as these things go, we were following up on the follow up questions, most interestingly about the need for a return to robust voter registration efforts along the line hallmarked by …
Simple Statements about Major Social Changes
Santa Fe We always say that the most important thing about organizing is listening carefully. That’s how we learn. We were with friends and comrades having a good visit over an excellent home grilled meal and the conversation drifted, as it always should, to the state of play in social change and building power for …