New Orleans The membership of legacy religious institutions may be falling like a rock, but their privileges are increasing. President Trump last week signed an executive order that sought to do a couple of things for churches. On one hand he wanted to give them some more flexibility in opposing abortion for their workers and …
Category: Organizing
The Peoples’ Climate March Demonstrates the Danger of the Numbers Game
New Orleans There are many iron laws in organizing, and one of them has to be that the more any tactic is repeated, the less effective it becomes. The so-called resistance may be on the verge of painful reality, as the triumphant numbers of the Women’s March in late January was followed by disappointing numbers …
Depressing Reports on the State of Union Organizing
New Orleans Just by the luck of the draw in a 48-hour period I happened to have a chance at some “state of the unions” shoptalk with three former high ranking union officials with deep backgrounds in organizing as well as a younger former organizer whose current work forces him to try to find the …