New Orleans When I’m in India the hawkers, street sellers, and even the recyclers always, and I mean always, ask me what it is like for people who are in their profession in the United States. When I answer the hawkers for example, and say that compared to India, we have almost none, they look at …
Category: Organizing
A Victory for the Poor is Still Possible At Least in British Columbia
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 …
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 …