Mexico City: It was a last minute invitation from fellow travelers in the water wars from Canada with the Polaris Institute who issued the call to meet with community based and indigenous groups from around Mexico meeting to look at the emerging issues of water privatization. There was no way to say no. Landing on …
Category: Labor Organizing
Peoples’ Pollster: Celinda Lake
Seattle: One of the big hits of the Organizers’ Forum had to be our old friend, the peoples’ pollster: Celinda Lake. Some of us have known Celinda virtually since she came out of Montana decades ago, but in the time since she has been the pollster of choice whenever an ACORN or the AFL-CIO or …
Framing
Seattle: The Organizers’ Forum was holding its spring dialogue in Seattle this year and focusing on how organizers of various stripes and varieties could either understand or utilize “framing.” This has been a hot button notion recently with the popularity of George Lakoff and his books about Moral Politics and other popular titles. Sweated down, framing …