06 Sep Dues Worth Paying
PCUN members have paid in $2,000,000 as dues and for services in a quarter century. This essay described PCUN’s dues system and analyzes how it manifests PCUN’s fundraising principles. ...
18 Abr Immigrant Spring, Five Years On: What the 2006 Marches of Millions Can Tell Us About Today’s “Madison Moment”
Do mega-marches change the state of politics…even history’s course? 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...
01 Ago 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....
01 Mar Voz Hispana Causa Chavista Leads Latino Voter Organizing
"Today we march, tomorrow we vote." Our Movement took part in making that slogan, popular during the immigrants' rights mobilizations of 2006 and 2007, into action in 2008. Nationally, the Latino vote increased by nearly 40% and swung sharply to Democratic candidates. "Today we march, tomorrow...
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 Ene 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....