08 Sep A Path to Movement Citizenship
A short essay outlining our vision for the movement-building that a legalization program would make possible. ...
01 Sep Year One in Movement Leadership
Brief descriptions of four projects undertaken in 1969-70 by the Congregation Solel Youth Group Social Action Committee which I co-chaired as a sixteen-year old—my first leadership position in movement leadership. ...
01 Aug The Minimum No One Talks about in Oregon
Text of an Op-Ed, published in the Salem Statesman-Journal newspaper, 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....
18 Oct Donde No Hay [Tantos] Votantes
How an immigrant-based movement has taken a “do-it-ourselves” approach to Latino voter organizing in an area where Latinos are numerous but Latino voters are not. The title, “Where There Aren’t [Very Many] Voters,” invokes the popular community manual “Donde No Hay Médico”...
18 May Our Movement’s First Home
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 building’s de-construction began in June 2008, the first step to prepare the site for the CAPACES Leadership Institute building....
18 Jan Coming to [New] Terms with the “I” Word
A concise de-construction and critique of what the word “illegal” has come to mean and how we might reframe and re-label “earned legalization” and “amnesty” and possibly employ “civil compromise” in their place....