New Orleans Grabbing the mantle of a movement often seems like a first impulse for many protests and campaigns but reaching for it is not the same as being a movement. At the same time there are signs that can’t be missed when a real movement is stirring. I found delightful evidence in what many …
Category: Organizing
The Children’s Guide to Changing the World
New Orleans Every once in a while, the New York Times prints a section for children. The alerting tag line is an admonishment for adults to not read the section. What is it about being told not to read something, that draws me to it immediately. In this instance my curiosity was richly rewarded. There …
“The Organizer” is a Way to Gather the Tribes
Oakland Running up and down California from south to north and back and forth to do Q&A after trial screenings with the documentary, “The Organizer,” and coupling that with my new book, Nuts & Bolts: The ACORN Fundamentals of Organizing, I have been trying to determine how we might use the film as an organizing …