New Orleans In 1974 when ACORN could hardly break into the Arkansas Gazette there was a front page story about how the organization and its members had engineered a “takeover” of the Pulaski County Quorum Court, which at that time was the governing body of the County holding Little Rock and North Little Rock. The …
Category: Organizing
Who is that Masked Woman – and Why?
New Orleans Rifling through the papers on my return, I am confronted by a picture of women on the beach in ski masks. What’s up with that? Flip a couple of pages and there are even more of them, as if it is a blooming fad of some kind. Reading further it was some of …
On Arab Spring & Occupy
Wade Rathke looks at the connections and contrasts between the revolutionary upheavals of the Arab Spring in the Middle East and the Occupy Movement at the 20th conference of AADERT (African and African-American Development, Education, Research, and Training) at Springfield College on June 2nd, 2012.