San Francisco I’m not totally shocked, but I didn’t see all of this coming. Meeting with random associates, comrades, and friends from diverse fields and directions, everyone on the Left Coast is buzzing about Bernie Sanders and his race for President. Running a union, there’s no way to miss the fact that several thousand union …
Category: Organizer Training
With Project React, the Citizens Alliance Follows Members to Africa
Bristol Meetings with the Alliance Citoyenne organizers broke for a couple of hours of sleep, and then plowed on against the clock. The morning was gray in Paris and cooler after an amazingly warm and clear Indian summer afternoon the previous day, so there was no temptation not to hue to the plan. The conversation was …
Rethinking Training for Teachers, Doctors, and Even Organizers
New Orleans The old saw that went something like, “those that can, do; and those that can’t, teach,” is getting a beating about the face and arms now, as serious thinkers – and practitioners – in multiple fields are thoroughly beating down both the “nature versus nurture” mythology of the argument, as well as heavily …