Organizer’s Clipboard – posts of thoughts and tips relevant to social justice, movement building and community organizing. Sometimes there will be posts about current events and others will be tips and tools for the work. Each time will be informational and (hopefully) entertaining.
May 17, 2014 (12) VIET, Mary Queen of Vietnam Church, New Orleans East Louisiana Community Health Center (NOELA CHC), and Alliance Institute hosted a free community health fair in New Orleans East on May 17, 2014. Over 35 health care vendors from the metro area participated.
Alliance Institute hosted its first Community Involvement Convening on May 11-13, 2016 in Gulfport, MS. Funded by the Gulf Health Outreach Program (GRHOP), the convening brought together community organizations from across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida to network, build programming skills, and to focus on collaborative strategies to expand their varied initiatives.
The Roots of Alliance Institute Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 5:15AM Marcus Garvey, the leader of the largest movement of Blacks in modern history, is often quoted as saying “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” Similarly, in this work of social justice, we often …
Last Thursday, October 8, 2015 to be exact, Cliff Huxtable’s favorite grandbaby, took yet another step away from our endearing hearts. In her latest formation, as the spunky Raven-Symone’, our deares Olivia outraged the interwebs by uttering the following during a discussion regarding racial assumptions based on names, “I’m not about to hire you if …
Raven-Symone’, Watermeloandrea, Wylecia, and Sweet Sweet Karma! Read More »
Monday, August 24, 2015 marks the beginning of a week of activities in commemoration of the devastation that struck the Gulf Coast of the United States in the form of Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans, the magnificent jewel of the coast, was and, is the epicenter of attention by the media (and by default the American …
A couple of weeks ago, while watching a Saints game outside a local New Orleans’ barroom, I met Prudence Brown, one of the Dyett 12. The Dyett 12 are a group of Chicagoans who have taken to a hunger strike to save their neighborhood high school, named for Walter Henri Dyett. Dyett was an African American …
How An Act of Prudence Upped the Ante for Justice in 2015 Read More »
Once upon a time, many years ago, I was at a meeting of organizers, academicians, and theologians and asked, what is that we (the organizers) needed from the others. My response was “paper.” The thinking behind my one word response is based upon a very realistic view of the world we live in versus the …
Of all the things folks are talking, tweeting and facebooking about – Iggy Azelea winning rapper of the year (really?), Bill Cosby rape charges, even the Mike Brown non-indictment ruling – none will have a bigger impact on poor and marginalized communities than the coming Health Center funding cliff. That’s right, in October of 2015 …
Charles E. Cobb Jr., former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary, recently wrote a very good article “Black people had the power to fix the problems in Ferguson before the Brown shooting. They failed (http://wapo.st/1DtwxSV).” While Mr. Cobb makes some excellent points regarding the Civil Rights Movement as it relates to the events that …
First, calm down. I am still a great fan of this juggernaut of Bootstrapping Black Power, but sometimes the times call for things to be said that run counter to the popular notions. Furthermore, to deny the shortcomings of our heroes and sheroes is to deny them of their humanity while lifting them to a …
