Marshall Ganz worked on the staff of United Farm Workers for sixteen years. A political organizer, he is a senior lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Ganz seems to think my book blames technology alone for the Internet’s failure to democratize politics. That’s far from the case. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree ...
Harvard Kennedy School lecturer Marshall L. Ganz ’64 discussed his new book — “People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal” — at the Cambridge Public Library on Wednesday. During the ...
In the spring of 2007, famed union organizer Marshall Ganz began meeting with the Obama campaign. Ganz persuaded them to create a field operation using the techniques that Ganz had developed with the ...
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In a life dedicated to organizing people to make change-from working with SNCC and the United Farm Workers to Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Brown, and President Obama-Marshall Ganz has seen and learned a lot, ...
Prof. Marshall Ganz, whiskered and looking like a kindly grandpa, stepped to center stage and told his story to a packed auditorium; we all sat riveted by the power of his words and the depth of his ...
Every spring, Marshall Ganz teaches a class at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on how to organize a political movement. This year feels especially strange, he tells the assembled room of ...
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Forty years ago Marshall Ganz, a top field organizer for Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers union, watched in confusion as Bobby Kennedy left a stage at Los Angeles’ Ambassador ...
What made the United Farm Workers Union the most successful farm labor movement in American history? What brought the union to its present sad state, with vastly diminished membership and a handful of ...