New Orleans There are no good times to be poor, but these are especially hard times given persistent inequality and distorted public policies that throw a couple of nickels towards lower income families while opening the gateway to millions for those with big money. All of which makes the ACORN victory in what might have seemed …
Category: Organizing
King’s Boots and Lewis’ Backpack
New Orleans Too often our tactics lose their edge when they devolve into more show than steel, more parade than march, more about the media than the target. This is constantly an organizer’s dilemma in putting together actions that have to impact various audiences. Without care and thorough, disciplined organizing with real people actions can …
Selma for Organizers
New Orleans The movie, Selma, has attracted some attention and controversy. There were no nominations for best director or best movie and in fact for the first time in decades all of the Academy Awards were as lily white as the management structures of the big movie studios. Others thought President Lyndon B. Johnson didn’t get a fair shake …