Santa Fe We always say that the most important thing about organizing is listening carefully. That’s how we learn. We were with friends and comrades having a good visit over an excellent home grilled meal and the conversation drifted, as it always should, to the state of play in social change and building power for …
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Nicaragua Then and Now
Managua The Organizers’ Forum delegation to Nicaragua rolled in by bus from Honduras and airplane from the US and Canada to the smallish, but surprisingly new and modern airport in Managua. We picked up the last two of our group after midnight with the streets deserted on a Saturday as we traveled along well …
Tides Recognizes BP Environmental Warriors on Long Gulf Coast Marathon Fight
New Orleans Twenty-two years ago the Tides Foundation began giving the Jane Bagley Lehman Public Advocacy Awards on an almost annual basis to largely unrecognized local grassroots organizers and activists making a huge difference on major issues in what I have always called “the vineyards.” During my more than 30 years on the board of …