Cochabamba Our days in La Paz were never complete without a trip to or from El Alto, the city of a million on the top of the mountain, which made us acutely aware of the importance of this strategic location in the future of social movements and the very country. Meeting with Ivan Nogales, the director …
Category: Organizing
Obama: “Change from the Outside”
New Orleans What goes around comes around, and President Obama, the Community Organizer-in-Chief (which is way different than the Chief Organizer!), said it during his Univision interview in Miami about the failure to achieve comprehensive immigration reform. The most important lesson I’ve learned is that you can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change …
Janitors Call Me, Jamie, and He Does, Maybe
New Orleans At the end of a fascinating planning meeting in a living room in Austin during a welcome all day of rain, I thought I would add some fun to the end of this productive session by making a suggestion that when the new organization got up and running with a website, here was …