Williamstown I did two short hitches at Williams College before going over the fence for good a long, long time ago, so it was with mixed feelings that I returned to talk to a couple of groups of smart students and their dynamic faculty members. I’m not sure what I think about it quite, but …
Poverty, Credit and Kiva
Hartford Sixty odd students at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work along with people from the Working Families Party, ACORN, MoveOn, and so forth came together to learn about Professor Bob Fisher’s newly released edited volume, The People Shall Rule, and Citizen Wealth. Good pizza, good feeling, good folks, and good, hard questions …
UMass and the 2nd Round
Amherst Once I showed up at Gordon Hall at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Professor Dan Clawson and others shared with me a message they had printed from the internet of the 9/12 projects strategy for disrupting my talk on “Workers and the Poor: Lessons for Organizing in the Age of Obama and Globalization.” …