Vancouver: In the first morning of the training for the first cycle of organizers in our new Community Leadership Centre, we got lucky – at least if you can call it that. On the front page of the Vancouver Sun there was a huge headline and giant pictures heralding a late night settlement the night before …
Category: Labor Organizing
Getting Out the Vote Door-to-Door
Chicago The Organizers’ Forum has been hosting a 2-day meeting of over forty community, labor and other organizers in a quick immersion discussion of new developments in political methodology here at Cenacle Retreat Center a few blocks from beautiful Lincoln Park along the Lakeshore. The sessions have gone remarkably well due in large part to well …
Falling
New Orleans My office is 10 blocks from the River. I live 3 blocks from the River. I like being near the River. Years ago I took a vacation once just to drive to the headwaters of the River to see Lake Itasca myself and be able to walk across a small rivulet there and know …