Hartford I arrived as Peter Drier from Occidental College finished his paper and Frances Fox Piven from GUNY presented her views on the tensions between protest and electoral politics. The fur was flying in the genteel manner of the academy. It was a wonderful experience to be a “fly on the wall,” as serious thinkers worried …
Category: Organizer Training
Organizing Workers at the Frontier
Dallas For 18 years we have held an annual labor board/staff retreat with all of the troops of Local 880 and Local 100 SEIU. This year was different in a lot of ways. First, we were meeting at South Fork Ranch in Dallas. Everyone kept asking how we came to South Fork, the scene of the …
Progressive Forces Hungry for the Fight
Boston I landed at close to 2 AM in the morning at Logan Airport. It was close to 3 AM before the head found the pillow. It was small comfort to find “my story” on the front page of the Boston Globe where radar problems had knocked the flight schedules — like mine — on …