Boston It’s just makes a cold day even colder when it starts with reading an obituary in the Boston Globe about Nick von Hoffman dying at Rockport, Maine at 88 years old. For von Hoffman the early part of this career in Chicago when he was a community organizer and the chief lieutenant of Saul …
Category: Community Organizing
Community Organizations Stabilize Urban Neighborhoods & Reduce Crime
New Orleans We told you so, and we’ve been telling the same story for more than 50 years: community organizations stabilize and improve neighborhoods. It seems almost ridiculous to have to state the claim. Seems like this should be common knowledge by now, but here it is, we’re saying it this time because in …
Women’s Voice and Women’s March
New Orleans Many women hit the streets once again all around the country at the anniversary of the first Women’s March. The theme was more political activism as the new face of resistance with the looming midterm elections providing the focal point. Numbers in local cities seemed to be running at half of last …