Houston Sometimes we find surprising light in dark corners. At least, that’s how I felt reading a kind of weird conversation between two, seemingly random, people as an op-ed in the New York Times. It turned out this was a kind of bizarre experiment of sorts from one of their opinion writers, Charlie Warzel, and …
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Janitors Call Me, Jamie, and He Does, Maybe
New Orleans At the end of a fascinating planning meeting in a living room in Austin during a welcome all day of rain, I thought I would add some fun to the end of this productive session by making a suggestion that when the new organization got up and running with a website, here was …
Rap Comes to Remittance Justice Campaign
New Orleans On ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign too often “civilians,” regular citizens, don’t have a clue about the predatory costs of moving money backwards and forward between where families and workers are now and their home country. All of this made it exciting to get emails in recent days from ACORN Canada organizers, Jill …
Effectiveness of Non-traditional Direct Action Kony Campaign
New Orleans In organizing, even in the smallest space of a neighborhood, we have always argued that you have to “create a happening” where the coming new organization seems to be everywhere on the tip of tongues, laundromat posters, telephone poles, mailings, and whatever tools could be assembled. The same is true of a political …
Infiltrators
New Orleans While I was being interviewed by Peter Collins, the former Air America host (www.peterbcollins.com ) for a radio podcast a little after 6 PM, I began getting instant messages that somehow Glenn Beck was airing an “exclusive interview” with me. No way! I had to focus so wasn’t able to click on the …