New Orleans Getting ready to roll for the airport and back to the UK to train organizers at something called Action Camp 2014 happening at a conference center near Birmingham run by a nonprofit called Locality that facilitates Prime Minister David Cameron’s Big Society initiative of putting 500 community organizers all across England. That should be …
Category: Organizing
The Military Sees Grassroots Organizing in USA and Globally as a Threat
Little Rock We were just talking a couple of days ago about how Canada was now monitoring every grassroots protest through their vast country. Being “Debbie Downer,” I speculated that you can bet that the USA is all over that, too. Almost simultaneously, what do you know, the UK-based Guardian runs a story saying essentially, …
Leaders and Stewards Demand Expanded Vision for Unions with a Long List of Details
Dallas One of the most amazing things about being an organizer, whether of community or labor-based organizations, remains the excitement of learning deeply what people really want – and expect – of their own organizations. For 33 years, Local 100 of the United Labor Unions has held an annual leadership conference. Many times it is largely …