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Mike Miller of OTC

Mike Miller of OTC

About Mike Miller of OTC

Mike Miller directs the San Francisco-based ORGANIZE! Training Center, and is author of the recent A Community Organizer's Tale: People and Power in San Francisco.

Diversity & isms in #Occupy

November 14, 2011 by Mike Miller of OTC Leave a Comment

The various “Occupy” developments around the country have opened the long-neglected and marginalized question of economic equality, and the power of concentrated income and wealth over the nation’s nominally “democratic” political system.  Nothing could be more welcome.  At the same time, the historic struggles of various “identity groups” for their place in the sun is […]

Filed Under: #Occupy, Race and Class Tagged With: race and class, racism, social movements

Building Solidarity and Dealing with Racism

August 21, 2011 by Mike Miller of OTC

In 1971, when I was “lead organizer” for what became the All Peoples’ Coalition (APC), I learned a different approach to dealing with some racism I encountered among working-class whites. APC was a federation of some thirty organizations (churches, block clubs, the neighborhood shopping strip’s merchant association, tenant associations, and other groups in Visitacion Valley, […]

Filed Under: Classism in Diversity Work, Classism in Progressive Movement Groups, Race and Class Tagged With: community organizing, race and class, racism, social movements, working class

The Plague of the Nonprofits

December 4, 2010 by Mike Miller of OTC Leave a Comment

How do you talk with your friends about a problem you think they’re causing?  First:  get their attention.  That’s what my title’s designed to do.  But I don’t want to make you mad:  so I’m sorry to be confrontational.  It’s easy to condemn corporate power, profiteering and executive officer greed, for-sale politicians, and unresponsive bureaucracies, […]

Filed Under: Classism in Progressive Movement Groups, Philanthropy and Classism

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