Bristol After 7 hours with our first organizing committee introduction with leadership and organizer training workshop at the Easton Community Centre in Bristol, it’s fair to say that we’re on our way and off to a great start. People were both serious and excited, and hunkered down to the tasks before them with another meeting …
Category: Community Organizing
Obama: Sailor for Social Change and Movement Man
New Orleans A lengthy interview with President Obama by David Remnick in The New Yorker has attracted a lot of attention for this detail and that, largely about the atmospherics and attitudes of the often inscrutably aloof Obama and how it impacts his practice as president. More interesting to me were insights that Obama revealed …
Nelson Mandela and Dewey Armstrong Both Passed This Way
New Orleans The news broke like a cold chill on an unbelievably warm and humid New Orleans December day. Nelson Mandela, the great South African freedom fighter, who with perseverance and countless comrades and allies, was able to see the end of the cruelty and injustice of apartheid and assist as President in ushering …