New Orleans After Katrina and the continual start-and-stop-and-slow rebuilding process in New Orleans with side trips and explorations to Kobe and more recently cities in Eastern Japan after those earthquakes and the tsunami attacks, and other cities near and far, I have come to believe that the way governments, established institutions, and community and popular organizations …
Tag: Battle for the Ninth Ward
Advocating Alternative Models for Community & Labor Organizing in Japan
Tokyo Ken Yamazaki is the deputy senior research officer in the international affairs branch of the Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training, a Phd, just published author on community organizing, and a helluva guy in my book. Having visited New Orleans recently with his delegation as they tried to better understand labor and community organizing, …
Cooperatives and Building Productive Democracy
Madison I took one wrong turn and ended up on the wrong side of the track waiting for a train, which only heightened my anticipation at what the Just Coffee Cooperative of coffee roasters might be like. From across the tracks the street seemed to be smaller multi-unit apartments nicely appointed running down a row. Finally …