Ruminations on Alinsky

By: Tuesday July 6, 2010 6:48 am

An Alternet.org column got me thinking about the late organizer Saul Alinsky.

Want To Help? 10 Ways To Start Making Change

By: Friday June 18, 2010 7:00 am

When I was updating my book on citizen activism,Soul of a Citizen, an activist rabbi who was teaching the book at a Florida university suggested I gather together a Ten Commandments for effective citizen engagement. Calling them Commandments seemed presumptuous, but I did draw together ten suggestions that can make engagement more fruitful.

Reform U.S. Foreign Policy. Pass the Employee Free Choice Act.

By: Monday April 27, 2009 7:55 am

In the short run, we have to oppose war with whomever is available. In the long run, we’ll never have a foreign policy that truly reflects the values and interests of the majority until working people in America have more political power. That’s why everyone who wants peace has a big stake in the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.

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