New Orleans Don’t get me wrong. Any group of organizers that can pull the trigger and pull out hundreds of thousands, then a million, and then possibly two million protestors on the streets out of a total population of seven million deserve wild praise and total respect. Such organizers can teach all of us …
Tag: Protests
Courts and Presidents Matter Everywhere
Asuncion Reading the headlines on-line as the Organizers’ Forum convened in Asuncion, Paraguay, it was hard to miss the chaos and clamor of the hearings in Congress on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanagh for the US Supreme Court. President Trump, never happy if the lead headlines don’t mention him, managed to insert himself into …
The Price of Protests
New Orleans The world is a dangerous place. War and the rumors of war fill the daily papers even in these days of our presumed advanced and enlightened civilization Ironically, the Age of Trump is such that some Americans are being warned not to think this is the beginning of the end times. Huh? This …