New Orleans Every once in a while something falls into your hands that begs to be shared. In this case S.M. “Mike” Miller, one of my infrequent, but invaluable correspondents and a faithful subscriber and sometime contributor to our journal, Social Policy, sent me, and others, a remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr, which seems …
Tag: civil rights
King’s Boots and Lewis’ Backpack
New Orleans Too often our tactics lose their edge when they devolve into more show than steel, more parade than march, more about the media than the target. This is constantly an organizer’s dilemma in putting together actions that have to impact various audiences. Without care and thorough, disciplined organizing with real people actions can …
Tide Turning on Voter ID Suppression
New Orleans As long as Republicans realize that their appeal is to a minority segment of the United States population, but fortunately for them, one that votes more steadfastly that Democrats, they will try to erect barriers in the road to voting since we do not have automatic suffrage. You would think that would be …