New Orleans Jim Hightower and his “Lowdown” crew happened to be in town and gave a call to join them for dinner, giving me an opportunity to catch up with a friend and comrade from Texas still kicking it hard after all of these years – thank goodness! We go back past most people’s memory …
Category: Community Organizing
Year End Meeting Highlights: Bengaluru, Checklists, and Campaigns
New Orleans Ten organizations from the US and Canada in our family of community organizations, labor unions, media operations, and social enterprises came together as we do every year in a Year End / Year Begin Meeting to evaluate the work of the past year and plan for the current year. Beside the people meeting …
Post-Ferguson: It’s Not the Tactics, It’s the Troops
New Orleans Historians, celebrities, names in the news, and old warriors of the civil rights movements are being put in the uncomfortable position of being asked by the press as so-called opinion leaders to comment on everything from the movie, Selma, to the tactics of protestors in the post-Ferguson moment of pushback and leap forward …