Milwaukee It wasn’t going to last long on a busy day, so I went with the Amani United leaders as they went downtown to testify to the county commissioners in solidarity with the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) bus drivers who had supported them in their successful effort to stop the elimination or rerouting of the …
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Building Political Clout from Scratch
San Francisco The last session on this tour of Milwaukee and Amani United’s steadily progressing leadership development had a curious title: platform. Curious, because the organization had a fairly detailed issue agenda formed over recent years. Much of the scope of my work with them initially had been helping them construction programs and campaigns …
Governments and Developers Play “Hide the Hand” with Communities
Milwaukee The topic for the session with the Amani United leaders was community benefit agreements and that meant digging deeper to understand not only the coming Democratic National Convention and its impact, but more immediately something called the Ikon Hotel project at the border of Amani along with the development and financing plans of Kaylan …