Kansas City From Missoula, Montana to New Orleans is a long haul, more than 2200 miles. It’s not something I recommend doing every year, but every once in a while it’s good to see what’s happening out there in America. Having made it as far as my uncle’s in Kansas City, means we’ve traveled across …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Why Not a Lyme Victims Association?
Rock Creek Sitting around the cooking area on Rock Creek, the subject of Lyme disease came up quickly, and there was a good reason for that. Partly, folks were talking about a fairly recent article in The New Yorker that almost all of us had read. The article was one of those maddening, though painfully …
Back Story: Alinsky on Hand-to-Hand Organizer Training
It’s interesting how sometimes when you are searching for one thing, you can stumble on another, almost randomly, and then find yourself wondering if it was coincidence or maybe the hand of fate. I thought about this while flying to San Pedro Sula in Honduras for a meeting with ACORN International organizers recently, as I read a strange and interesting document called, …