Going Public — This Week's Insight “Intelligent action, even public confrontation, is at bottom an attempt to engage and relate. Most activists fail to appreciate this. Bureaucrats seek to stifle it. Reenactors have lost sight of it. Celebrity self-promoters try to monopolize it. And terrorists long to destroy it. Our leaders study and practice it....Continue reading
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Going Public Book Club – Chapter 2: The World As It Is
Going Public — This Week's Insight “How do you think new and better schools will be built? Because they are desperately needed? Because it’s a good idea? Because the honchos at the Board of Education wake up in the morning and decide to do the right thing? Because the city is appalled by the chronic...Continue reading
Going Public Book Club – Chapter 1: All Real Living is Meeting
Going Public — This Week's Insight "We forget or deny that the appetite to relate is fundamental, and that the willingness to relate is nearly universal. People who have ideas and drive are on every street, in every project, every workplace and school, waiting in the wings, ready to be discovered. Someone has to reach...Continue reading
Going Public In-Person Opportunity: April 27th at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church with Jersey City Together
If you are not yet subscribed to the Jersey City Times, I encourage you to make the investment. Because, as I detail below, we need the press on a very basic level when it comes to civics. Action 1: Jersey City Together’s public action at Christ the King R.C. Church in Greenville On April 27th,...Continue reading
Going Public Book Club – Week 1. Preface & Introduction
Going Public — This Week's Insight "I am an organizer. Not a consultant to so-called faith-based programs. Not a facilitator. Not an advisor. Not a service provider or do-gooder. Not an ideologue. Not a political operative. Not a pundit. Not a progressive. Not an activist...I won't begin to make sense unless I follow the advice...Continue reading