A Model Memo to Grassroots Activists
It doesn’t have to be fancy with a constant contact layout or on a letterhead, but it does need to be clear and specific. Please find here in its entirety a memo from from Lew Finfer to his grassroots activists working on youth development, violence prevention and youth jobs. There are 2 main asks to...
What Would Frances Fox Piven Do?
When she found out that a special Legislative “Commission” had, after much public debate and little or no real data had proposed some punitive, unrealistic, unenforceable new laws to limit the use of EBT cards by welfare recipients? She’d say Please Urge Your Representative NOT to Sign Onto the O’Connell-Holmes Impractical, Costly and Unconstitutional EBT Bill. And...
Good grass-roots organizing always beats money, no matter how much,’’ Dukakis said in an interview.
And he’s absolutely right. This Globe story describes the pressure that the volunteer town officials face as “big money out of town casino developers” move in to get the necessary permissions to build a destination casino in their town. The state’s legalization of casino gambling is putting unprecedented demands and pressures on part-time local officials, calling...
