New Orleans Without any question for the last forty years the single largest funder of basic, hard scrabble community organizing has been CCHD, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. For years roughly $9 million in donations received across the country through a special collection administered by all Catholic churches has made the support of building …
Category: Community Organizing
President Represents All of the Rest of Us on Thanksgiving this Year
New Orleans The right always wails that Obama is the Community Organizer-in-Chief, but he rarely is. During the war years, the odds were excellent that he might be on a plane to Iraq or Afghanistan to share the day with the troops. All of which makes this Thanksgiving special since he and Michelle Obama did the …
Immigration Arrests: A Sign of Tactical Shift or Desperation
Little Rock More than forty representatives of unions, community groups, and pro-immigration reform advocates were arrested for civil disobedience in Washington, D.C. for street blocking in traffic. Those arrested included major advocates like Gustavo Torres of Casa de Maryland and Petra Falcon of Arizona, as well as leaders of the AFL-CIO, SEIU, UFW, CWA, Center …