Oakland Every once in awhile if you are searching for new paths, you are going to have to change directions in order to find the way. At least that’s what I thought in agreeing to go to a day-and-a-half conference in Oakland on art and activism, organizing and culture. An invitation from old friends and …
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Resistance, Solidarity and ACORN at Occupy
New Orleans Perhaps the easiest organizing I can make right now as an organizer is that the Occupy movement needs to prepare to meet the resistance. Well, maybe it would be even easier to mention my concerns about the fact that winter is approaching in many areas, but later for that. In the last week …
Assault on the Rights of Workers in USA and Mexico
New Orleans When I was working the streets as an organizer, and now that I’m still working the “allied trades,” my rule of thumb was that if a name was mentioned to me twice, that meant I needed to find the person, and if three times, I needed to do it immediately, to build the …