New Orleans I had offered the Occupy NOLA folks a place to meet at various times during their occupation of the desolate park space in front of New Orleans City Hall, but it was only by showing up on the night that they were being evicted from the Avery Alexander / Duncan Plaza and inviting [...]
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New Orleans Support is increasingly lining up in New York City and elsewhere not simply for living wage ordinances, but more specifically for a more targeted type of living wage program where public dollars are partnered with private development. These so-called “business assistance” living wage ordinances that also draw from experiences with “community benefit agreements” [...] John and Amy get an ACORN Canada calendar Detroit The ACORN Canada staff finished an excellent Year End / Year Begin meeting in “southern Canada” across the river from Windsor in Detroit, where 15 of the team discussed campaigns, results of last year’s work, and goals for the coming year. In order to get a [...] December 9, 2011 New Orleans A fellow organizer passed on an email to me yesterday that is worth sharing. Occupy Wall Street put out a combination position paper / magazine / whatnot entitled: “TIDAL: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy.” I was able to access the PDF by googling the title directly, and you might want to [...] New Orleans Predictably as the weeks wear on and the weather hardens the city by city campers of the Occupy movement are now enduring the questions from near and far, high and low about how long they can hang in and hang on. Fair enough, perhaps, but we need to keep the radar ready and [...] New Orleans Nothing about the Cameron government “Big Society” initiative to insert community organizers into poor areas around the United Kingdom seemed very organic or likely to succeed once the real deal started to crystallize. Going from a 5000 organizer initiative over four years would mean producing an average of only 125 per year. [...] |
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