March 8, 2021 New Orleans In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, we heard from a former mayor and activist in the area. He wanted to do something, almost anything, as he watched television and witnessed the demonstrations. He was horrified by the police tactics. Groping to respond, he …
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Police Plus Shots Equal Feet on the Street
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock About twenty Georgia State University School of Social Work students watched the film, The Organizer, in Atlanta recently. I zoomed in for a questions-and-answers session after it finished. The first question was straightforward: how would I compare the work of ACORN with the Black Lives …
The Campaign to Ban Tear Gas
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09202020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River We’ve talked about Bjorn Skogquist before, but this time we wanted to catch up with him and the Ban Tear Gas Campaign in more detail on Wade’s World. Bjorn was a former mayor of a small suburb of Minneapolis-St. Paul, who found himself forced into …