Shreveport There’s no real debate about whether climate change is huge threat. You don’t have to believe the science, but you can’t deny what Richard Pryor famously called the evidence available to your “lying eyes.” We see it everywhere around us from the diminishing coastline to earlier Springs and more violent storms. The problem for …
Category: Organizing
Church Exemption: Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander
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 …
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 …