Vancouver The board of ACORN Canada hunkered down at the Arundel Hotel next to the office to review both plans for the coming year and assess where the organization stood right now on a number of fronts. Lengthy discussion also centered on ACORN Canada’s leadership role in Community Organizations International [...]
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Vancouver Dave Tate of ACORN Canada’s New Westminister chapter opened the AGM for ACORN Canada right at the stroke of 6 PM in the Century community center surrounded by beautiful gardens, English lawn bowling greens, and a room full of members from British Columbia and members of the board including Kay Bisnath and Marva Burnet [...] Vancouver Mary Rawles of the British Columbia Government Employees Union (BCGEU) had responded with grace when I asked several weeks ago, “Hey, I’ve got Citizen Wealth coming out, could we do something at the union?” What did either of us know about what we were doing? I didn’t know [...] Vancouver President Obama is convening the twice delayed political summit (no-non-pols invited) at the White House to discuss comprehensive immigration reform. This should be good news, but the political framing is depressing. It seems that this critical issue is now a HUGE political football being played to see whether the [...] Rome I should have suspected that being without internet and simply depending on my Blackberry while in Sicily was still a dangerous thing to do, and sure enough as I was being driven to the Catania airport I got a message from a reporter for the Washington Times named Amanda [...] Rome Labrino was designed as a plan for a new city (la nuova citta) by the famous architect, Kenzo Tange, and his associates based in Tokyo in the early 1970’s. Groundbreaking on the first building was in 1976. This was a grand plan designed for 70,000 people. There were ten sections of Labrino [...] Catania The four women from Palermo had been peppering me with questions throughout the organizing workshops. Clearly they were up to something, so it was not surprising when they finally arranged to visit with me for a couple of hours to get advice on their campaign. At the simplest they [...] Catania After an engaging number of hours with a collection of officials from neighboring towns, activists, students, professors, and others discussing the principles of community organization and the “burning issues” they brought to the workshop, I caught a lift with Paolo Guarnaccia one of the driving forces behind ViveSimeto to [...] |
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