New Orleans The Organizers’ Forum has conducted an International Dialogue with community and labor organizers and activists in various movements around the world since 2002. In our first trip to Brazil we almost miraculously stumbled into the wild excitement in Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro around the election campaign of Lula de Silva from …
Category: Organizing
Flyering Door-to-Door is a Constant Neighborhood Education
New Orleans Opening a new location of our social enterprise Fair Grinds Coffeehouse on St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans was a relief even if we’re still shaking out the kinks, installing the ice machine, this and that. How we get the word out for our soft opening and early weeks has been a constant …
Waffle House, Roadie, and, Hey, Organizer, Are You Going My Way?
New Orleans I’m not an Uber-fan. Cabdrivers have a rough road to travel and city regulations protect their safety and the passengers, so what Uber calls “disruption,” looks a lot like another corporate scam on workers and their communities. On the other hand, I’m no fool. And, when it looked impossible to catch a cab …