San Jose At the University of California at Santa Cruz in the question and answer period after THE ORGANIZER, I got what has become a standard question about the role of social media in organizing. I’m always kind but clear. Social media is a fantastic and inexpensive communication tool that is invaluable for organizing, but …
Category: Organizing
Parsing Demonstrations to Movements to Organizations
Santa Cruz Let’s give a “A” for effort on this paper, regardless of quibbles about content. At least Beverly Gage, a Yale history professor, writing for the New York Times Magazine in a piece entitled “Cause and Effort” gave some props to social change and tried to introduce some of the problems and potential of …
Crowds on Demand
New Orleans Utility companies are rarely popular companies. Entergy might be one of the least popular of the breed. A huge part of its national business is managing nuclear power plants, rarely on the top ten favorite list for a lot of people. Regionally, Entergy has some of those plants in Taft, Louisiana, Russellville, Arkansas, …