A new biography of key civil rights organizer Bob Moses—who helped spearhead the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign—offers an insightful portrait of a man and a movement whose lessons could not be more relevant today.
Community organizers and those who write about them have a bad habit of exaggerating the divide between “organizations” and “movements.” Building the kind of people power we need to slow, halt, and reverse present trends requires of various organizing camps …
Mike Miller: Obama and His Critics
For seventy years the disparate “Left” supported, belittled, glamorized, ignored, or attacked Saul Alinsky and his tradition of community organizing. Today, it should embrace community organizing, participate in it, and play the role that non-sectarian left organizers do in the …
