Dallas One of the most amazing things about being an organizer, whether of community or labor-based organizations, remains the excitement of learning deeply what people really want – and expect – of their own organizations. For 33 years, Local 100 of the United Labor Unions has held an annual leadership conference. Many times it is largely …
Category: Community Organizing
The Melian Debate: One of the Great Organizing Exercises
Little Rock In a brilliant essay in the New York Times “Stone” series on philosophy, the moderator and a professor at the New School, Simon Critchley, decided to spit in the wind on Easter Sunday of all days, the miraculous day of hope for Christians taking the giant and glorious leap of faith in believing in …
Movements Take Infrastructure, Not Simply Communication
Delhi Maybe someone out there is hearing our tired, old, boring message: organizing takes hard work! Yes, I’ve said it now, but it was never a secret despite the flutter of excitement about the mirage of so-called Twitter and Facebook “revolutions. In two very interesting pieces, one “After the Protests” by Zeynep Tufekci in …