Jakarta 36 days of Exile It’s late September so it’s time for the Organizers’ Forum World Tour (www.organizersforum.org). Five or more years ago, we established the Organizers Forum to give serious and senior community and labor organizers an opportunity to engage critical issues and challenges outside of the normal channels and silos of our work. We …
Category: Organizer Training
Site Fighters!
San Francisco 27 Days in Exile Hard to keep everyone up to date with all that is happening. A good example was several weeks ago, when the Site Fighters Conference kicked off at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg on the 1st and 2nd of September. This was a meeting of organizers — men and …
Opening the World Social Forum with the MST
Porto Alegre, Brazil: The World Social Forum is difficult to describe. It started here in Brazil and has met here each of its five years except last year when it did evangelical work for social movements and met in Mumbai, India. It is a big, unruly, bunch of folks of every size and description both …