Athens It would be hard to imagine a city with more experience in industrial tourism than Athens. I’m en route to the 5th International Dialogue of the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) being held this year in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, and stopping in Athens changing planes on the way. The signs of the 2004 Olympics are …
Category: Personal Writings
A Foundation Helping Build a Movement?
Atlanta I have heard the rap several times, but each time I still have to listen hard to make sure I am hearing it right. When Luz Vega-Marquis, President of the Marguerite Casey Foundation in Seattle talks about the mission of their foundation being to support low income people building a movement of change, it …
Training Organizers
Los Angeles Flying out I read a book called Activism, Inc. written by a sociologist who had followed the canvassers with Grassroots Campaign, Inc (GCI) created by Doug Phelps, as one of the largest canvassing subcontractors. The book actually called the outfit the “Peoples’ Project,” but it was obvious it was GCI. Her essential theme …