New Orleans Perhaps the easiest organizing I can make right now as an organizer is that the Occupy movement needs to prepare to meet the resistance. Well, maybe it would be even easier to mention my concerns about the fact that winter is approaching in many areas, but later for that. In the last week …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Myles Horton and Occupy Decision Making Structure
Toronto It is interesting to be reading Myles Horton’s autobiography, Long Haul, with its firmly held views on popular education, starting with where people are, supporting social movements, student-run and student-led educational experience, and “circles” of learning that are leaderless in pursuit of knowledge and at the same time hear and think about the Occupy …
Tea Party, Occupy, Movements and Organizations
Kingston I love reading about the pinch in the shoes of the Tea-people as they try to scurry about and disclaim similarities to the Occupy forces that are springing up everywhere around the USA and the world. The cultural complaints are the most absurd, since that is mostly the differences in the ages of the …