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, …
Category: Organizing
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 …
Twitter is Not Going to Make It: Too Passive, Too Clunky
Dallas The number two guy at Twitter resigned to no one’s surprise, since he had been selling off his stock like there was no tomorrow. He had been promoted to try to expand their markets and audience and get some growth going, but given the disappointing growth on the micro-blogging site, his job was the …