Ocean Springs Having read the papers with a nice light rain outside as I was stumbling around in the pre-dawn, I found an intriguing posting by Stephen Windwalker about Kindle books on his Facebook status update. He’s a stone cold Kindle fanatic and seems to be one of the worlds’ premier experts on Kindle …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Money Guard
New Orleans A colleague forwarded me an interesting “citizen wealth” strategy for lower income families to protect small resources: having a “money guard.” The P2P Foundation (peer to peer) included a piece on their website with the following story: Money guarding: “If you get a fairly decent chunk of money, you give it to …
Using Popular Education
Chicago Among a number of fascinating discussions at the Organizers’ Forum board dialogue in Chicago was a sharing of how people used popular education techniques in leadership development and training. This was an area where we also benefited from a global perspective on organizing since the experience in Latin America and Africa using popular education …