Rock Creek Reading a short book on revisiting the practice of anarchism by James C. Scott during the last year I became aware of his earlier work, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, which I was sure was even more up my alley. The book, published in 1985, is based on anthropological …
Category: Organizing
Guinea and the Challenges of International Organizing
Rock Creek More than a year ago, ACORN International’s affiliate in the Czech Republic approached with an unusual request. Exiles from Guinea, living in Prague, had asked for the organization’s help and assistance in organizing an affiliate of ACORN International in this country in West Africa. And, why not, since Guinea, formerly French Guinea, is …
Occupy What? Occupy Where?
Rock Creek The weekly entertainment and alternative paper in western Montana is the Missoula Independent. The cover story entitled, “Occupy Missoula: Where are They Now?” caught my eye. Coming on the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the movement seems now more firefly than firestorm. The reporter interviewed a half-dozen people who had been …