The Audacity of Hope
I have just recently returned home from Greece on my own volition, not deported from Israel as I had expected. I am alright with that to. My work as part…
Make Big Banks Pay!
Spending time in NY in the early part of this year, made it possible for me to continue some of the banking work I have been doing for the past…
Monkey Wrencher of the Year Award!
On April 17th I, along with several distinguished others, was bestowed a Monkey Wrencher of the Year Award by our fabulous local radical bookstore - Monkey Wrench Books! What an…
United Auto Workers Rise Up
On March 24th I had the privilege of addressing the 1000 member delegate assembly of the United Auto Workers at their Collective Bargaining Convention in Detroit. I was given 45…
Welcoming 2011 Belated
2011 really began for me over the holidays of 2010, when our good friends Laurie and Jenn visited for a week. They often come to Austin, as Jenn hails from…
ESI Step Back!
Spent most of this fall working outside of Philadelphia, PA in a small town called Bensalem working to save some good union jobs. Express Scripts first announce it would close…
Appalachia Rising
On Sept. 27, 2009 over 200o people march through the streets of Washington DC passed the EPA to the White House where over 120 people were arrested protesting mountain top…
Hello 2010
OK it is a new year! Maybe, just maybe I will make this blog work. Catching up is taking as much energy as moving forward, so for the moment I…
Think Outside the Bomb
What an amazingly powerful few days I had in Albuquerque, NM August 13-16th. I went to offer trainings on nonviolent direct action and organizing at the Think Outside the Bomb…
Capitol Climate Action, March 2009
I remember hearing that some folks I knew were planning a mass civil disobedience in Washington DC on climate issues. Specifically targeting coal - the Capitol Coal Plant. I hear…