New Orleans Let’s talk about another resource and information tool today available at organizingupgrade.com. This is a theme we’ll keep coming back to in these times of trouble and turmoil. I’m not sure if organizingupgrade.com is a new project or simply new to me. I stumbled on it recently when someone recommended I look at …
Category: Community Organizing
Digital “Tools” for Organizing Protests and Building the Movements that Follow
New Orleans Zeynep Tufekci, a professor at the University of North Carolina, wrote an interesting op-ed in the Times, headlined, “Does a Protest’s Size Matter?” The answer is easy: of course it does! But, that’s not the point she wants to underline. The professor wants to underscore the fact that a protest about something is …
Women’s March on Washington Has Stepped Up to a Strong Platform
New Orleans More numbers have started to roll in on the delegations coming from the states to the Women’s March on Washington the Saturday after the Inauguration. Two thousand have signed up from Texas, three hundred from Arkansas, and twelve hundred from Louisiana. A story in my local paper had a picture of women making …