Kim Fellner
Kim Fellner is former director of the National Organizers Alliance. She works in the labor movement and lives in Washington, D.C. She is the author of Wrestling With Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino (Rutgers University Press, 2008).
Capitalizing on Hope in the Capital
It’s as though we’ve suddenly discovered a new form of Prozac called Obama. Miraculously, millions of depressed progressives have the audacity to hope again....
What the Mermaid Taught Me
Wrestling With Starbucks, by Kim Fellner. Rutgers University
Press, 2008, 283 pp. $24.95 (hardcover).
Press, 2008, 283 pp. $24.95 (hardcover).
Hearts on Fire (Fighting Organizer Burnout)
I have always thought of my movement work as a demanding, aggravating and irresistible lover - one it's impossible to marry, or to leave....
Hearts and Crafts: Powering the Movement—Organizing’s Past, Present, and Future, Part 1
Organizing has long played an important role as a catalyst in bringing together disenfranchised communities. The following is one of three essays representing different...