Chicago Just when you think there’s nothing else that they can do, you stumble on yet some new way that the moneychangers have come up with to pick the pocketbooks of the biscuit cookers. From reading a piece in the Wall Street Journal (which I gather may become a Murdock tabloid soon), it seems …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Neighborhood Blogs
New Orleans There was a piece in the Times today that was frightening to me, and probably to all community organizers because as sure as I was reading it, I could see the workload climbing! The piece said that a website called “Outside.In” was collecting local news and blog posts covering about 3000 neighborhoods in …
Corporate Training
Denver The organizers wanted some perspectives on training, so at the Organizers’ Forum’s Spring Dialogue on training, we brought in to guests. One was Daisy Rooks of UCLA, who had interviewed 70 odd folks who had passed through the AFL-CIO’s Organizing Institute between 1991 and 2006. The comments from some of her interviews were pretty …