Denver The Organizers’ Forum Spring Dialogue opened in the crisp, clean spring air of the foothills between Denver and the mountains, but the first day’s private session for the board and their training directors indicated that all of us are searching deeply for better and more effective training systems, especially where we need to get …
Category: Organizer Training
LOCOA Loose Ends
Manila While heading for the airport in Manila to begin the endless flight to the next pieces of work in San Francisco, I was witness to the endless dialing calculations of organizers as they confront the deadening and difficult traffic of the city. It may have been before dawn on a Sunday, but there were …
Reflections of Older Filipino Organizers
Tagaytay City An organizing culture is a puzzle taking some time to open, and this has certainly been the case of my time with by brother and sister community organizers in Asia in LOCOA. It takes awhile to ask the right questions and step past assumptions to more closely listen to the answers. LOCOA has …