New Orleans Headlines blaring that Britain’s leaders were “caught unprepared” at the outbreak of riots throughout metropolitan London and now spreading to Birmingham were surprising to me. Persistent, structural unemployment, marginalized housing and living conditions, no prospects for the future, severe and draconian austerity cutbacks in social services and family support, are all coming together …
Category: International
Global Grassroots: Perspectives on Organizing
Missoula It’s been fun to look at the first, advance copies of the new Social Policy Press book, Global Grassroots: Perspectives on Organizing. Sharing a copy with friends and family, the reactions have been positive. People are finding surprises as they open the covers. The book combines a pile of essays from organizers around the …
ACORN International Actions on Foreign Retail and on Small Retail in India
New Orleans I love my job! Given the differences in international time zones there are surprises all hours of the day and night, because good organizing is happening 24 hours a day. We are about to celebrate this with the publication by Social Policy Press of Global Grassroots: International Perspectives on Organizing this week, but …