Milwaukee If you want to really be helpful in leadership development or organizer training, you can’t just pull a bunch of old training documents off the hard drive, print the agendas, change the dates, plug and play. If I’m going to do the work for more than an hour or two, I want to first …
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Nice Surprises in the City of Milwaukee
Milwaukee Before taking my traveling road show from Madison to Milwaukee, I spent some time in the ACORN archives that are part of the Social Change Collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Perhaps four years ago, WHS archivists had picked up another 35 cartons of material from our hall in Baton Rouge where we were …
Milwaukee and Other Cities are Explosions Waiting to Happen
New Orleans For quite a while in these times of inequity and polarization around income, class, race, and so many other issues, there has seemed – at least to me – a fuse steadily and slowly burning towards an explosion in our cities. We are definitely seeing it now in Milwaukee, as the community rioted …