Amersfoort, Netherlands In the exactly six weeks since I visited organizers of the national health funds campaign in Holland, the campaign has continued to explode. When I first sat down with them at that time they had about 40,000 responses to their campaign with a little more than half asking for tool-kits to take …
Category: Community Organizing
Professor Lead-Head: A Zealot? No Way!
Little Rock I should just start with some disclosures. For years my ears have been inches away from a thousand conference calls, shouts of outrage at newspaper articles, and screams at television sets for the level of ignorance and ignoring of the dangers of lead pretty much on land, sea, and air all around us. …
Encouraging Updates on Organizing Informal Workers Globally
Paris Alison Tate, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) director of economic and social policy and Sharan Burrow, the president of the ITUC, had just flown in from China earlier in the day before Adrien Roux and I met them in a plaza, enjoying the reportedly rare Brussels sunshine safely under an umbrella while pounding …