Rock Creek, Montana Hey, are you having a bad day? Not sure things can ever be any different? Not sure it’s worth the effort to get out there and hit the doors, talk to your neighbors or co-workers, and do what has to be done? Here’s some good news: you have a friend! Pope Francis, …
Category: Organizing
Medical Debt, Organizing Reunions, and Restorations
Pittsburgh The Pittsburgh ACORN Family Reunion Picnic organized by ANEW Institute in Homestead was battling bad weather forecasts and real raindrops that moved the affair from the park to the porch of the Baker House on 11th. The score of folks who came by couldn’t have cared less, because they got to see the progress on the renovation …
Hillary Rodham on Saul Alinsky, Community Organizing, and Change
Montreal I knew that Hillary Clinton, when still Hillary Rodham, had written her senior thesis at Wellesley College on Saul Alinsky and his work, and I had even talked to her about it briefly over lunch once in Little Rock in the early 1970’s, but I had never actually read it until the link was …