New Orleans Every once in a while there’s something close to serendipity in this work. Yesterday, I was pulling my hair out trying to think through the Occupy problem with winter coming on. I had opened my blog yesterday, saying: “the easiest opinion I can offer right now as an organizer is that the Occupy …
Category: Organizing
Visiting Highlander and Thinking about Power and the Powerless in Memphis
New Market I couldn’t remember my last visit to the Highlander Center, but it had to have been in the last century. Little had really changed. The same bunk beds, rocking chairs, and great views of the Cumberland Mountains were still there. Finally thanks to towers popping up like weeds on the hillsides …
Egyptian Revolution in Doubt
New Orleans Hardly three weeks away from our exhilarating and hopeful experiences in Cairo and all the new reports are bummers because it is becoming clearer and clearer that the military is staging its own coup to continue to act as an armed and dangerous junta ruling the country both in front and behind the …