Organizing Committees are the Heart of Organizing

            San Francisco             In Oakland we had the sixth and final regional ACORN and Anthropocene Alliance training with about ten people drawn from groups in the Bay Area.  In the early afternoon, I always lay out the elements of an ACORN organizing drive in a community, particularly stressing the critical importance of the organizing committee, …

Wreck My Sundays

            Pearl River      I was late to the game, and it took a New Yorker article to introduce me formally to Maggie Rogers, a young singing and pop sensation.  It wasn’t my first meeting.  Often when I’m home, having walked the dog and eating my oatmeal in the predawn, I ask Alexa to play alternative …

Ron Pollack and FRAC

            New Orleans       I wasn’t sure how I got on the mailing list for the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), but was good with it.   A notice hit my in-mail that there was going to be a conversation with Ron Pollack, FRAC’s founder, triggered by the 50th anniversary of the WIC (Women and …