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 …
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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 …
MASH is a New Kind of Labor Union
Milwaukee It is impossible to be in Milwaukee for more than fifteen minutes and not hear about the surprising success of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team this season and their breakout star, known affectionately as the Greek Freak. You figure? It is also impossible not to spend time in a community and with an organization …