Review of Strategy and Soul

March 2, 2017/ Article

Reading Daniel Hunter’s Strategy & Soul is almost as good as taking one of his Training for Change workshops.  It’s a very experiential read, immersing you in the story of community organizing and developing a campaign to keep casinos out of Philadelphia.  You quickly find yourself drawn into the details of the struggle and with graceful ease there is a step back to reflect on what is happening and the theory

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Was the Walker recall effort the wrong fight?

March 2, 2017/ Article

A few months after last year’s Wisconsin uprising at the state capitol, I stood in front of a packed Quaker meeting house overflowing with labor leaders, religious leaders and radical activists. They carried a wide range of feelings: a mood of failure because Governor Scott Walker had moved through his nefarious legislation, an excitement left over from daily waves of actions and protests, and a shared sense of shock and being

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