New Orleans For the second year, we have interns visiting New Orleans from Eastern Europe in order to learn community organizing methodology. Last year we had a young woman from Sofia, Bulgaria. This year we will be hosting one woman from Albania and another woman from Bulgaria who is an anthropology professor and activist …
Category: Organizing
Oh, No! Jerry Jones and the Anthem Again!
New Orleans Around the globe, football means soccer, and the recently concluded quadrennial World Cup was its showcase. In America, football is a different thing altogether, especially when it comes to the endless draft-to-summer-to-exhibition-to-regular season-to-playoffs-to-Super Bowl, National Football League on the professional level. Once again, as exhibition games get ready to begin, we’re having …
Fighting for Water and Land in Honduras
San Pedro Sula The calendar surprised me. I hadn’t really visited our offices, organizers, and members in Honduras for almost four years. I had met our organizers other places, Mexico, Ecuador, and Houston, but had not actually been on the ground with them recently to measure the progress being made by the local organizations at …