Heerlen Walking the neighborhoods to plot out the early organizing drives to build ACORN Netherlands beginning in Heerlen Noord never gets old. We started near the city center and then worked our way farther and farther north towards the castle. We had to drive from one patch to another at one point, because this …
Category: ACORN International
Zoombies
New Orleans One of the things the pandemic brought way too many of us which still lingers as a factor, if not a force, in our lives and work is Zoom, where too many of us – or maybe it’s just me – have a love-hate relationship. I’m not saying Zoom isn’t valuable. …
Climate, Youth, and Mobilization
Delhi We had met Vijay Sehrawat in Katmandu when he turned up at one of our sessions. Briefly, he told us he was with an organization called Youth for Climate India. He had opened up a map of India on his phone, showing what I thought were groups across the country. He was …