Tells the story of the small, dilapidated wooden structure that served as our headquarters from 1980 to 1988 and then as a residence for volunteers.  The story was written about six weeks before the building’s de-construction was launched in June 2008, the first step in preparing the site for the CAPACES Leadership Institute building.  (May, 2008; 10 p)

March 17th, 2005

Describes four events that occurred in Woodburn on that date, each—and together—serving as indicators of the progress our movement had made—or failed to make—in changing the politics of Woodburn over a quarter century.  (Dec., 2005; 19 p. in Word)

You Can Hear Us Now!:  The Story of PCUN’s Radio Movimiento, “La Voz del Pueblo”

Narrates PCUN’s path to establishing and operating a non-commercial low-power FM radio station.   Subtitled “Taking mass communications with PCUN’s community base from someday to every day,” this work lays out a quarter century of dreaming, scheming, teaming up for, and beaming radio broadcasting.  The final chapter sets forth three big ideas that have shaped our movement and how the radio station manifests those ideas.  (Jan., 2008; 134 pages)

A reflection on the 35^th anniversary in 2012 of WVLP, one of our movement’s very first non-profit (but still least visible) entities.  WVLP was incorporated on March 31, 1977, coincidentally César Chávez’s 50^th birthday. (March 31, 2012; 4 p.)

Do mega-marches change the state of politics…even the course of history?  This essay articulates and applies the political “physics” that propel and paralyze the phenomenal forces behind the immigrants’ rights marches, the fight-back in Wisconsin against collective bargaining rights rollback, and the regime-change protests in Cairo.  Delivered as the Arthur Langlie Lecture at Whitman College, May 4, 2011.  (April 2011; 7 p)

An Op-Ed, published in the Salem Statesman-Journal newspaper on August 1, 2009 under the headline “Minimum Wage Workers are Better Off in Oregon.” The essay, written as increase in the federal minimum wage took effect, sets forth the forces behind and key outcomes of Oregon’s minimum wage having been higher than the federal minimum for two decades. (Aug., 2009; 1 page)

An Op-ed on the 2012 re-enactment of the five-day Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965 and how the 2012 march broke new ground in unifying the modern day civil rights and immigrants’ rights struggles to repeal Alabama’s worst-in-the-nation anti-immigrant law, HB 56.  (March, 2012; 1 page in Word)