Consolidating the Fight Against Housing Displacement in Canada

ACORN ACORN International Canada

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12152019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsQuebec City    After a day of training and reports, the ACORN Canada organizing staff really got serious when the Year End / Year Begin meeting began no holds barred wrestling with campaigns.  The discussion was particularly intense around the dual crises of affordable housing, beyond the reach …

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The Numbers Underneath the Art of Organizing

ACORN International Canada

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12142019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Quebec City    Listening to the national and office reports from the organizers ACORN Canada last evening at their Year End/ Year Begin meeting, I was making notes and trying to follow the breakthroughs on new campaigns and victories here and there over the year.  Most of the …

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Capacity in Organizing Counts – Props to Those Who Get It!

ACORN ACORN International Canada Community Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09282019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLake Buckhorn, Ontario     In the annual HO/LO meeting of ACORN Canada several hours north of Toronto in the urban-centric area called “cottage country” near the defining geological formation known as the Canadian Shield, the head organizers and lead organizers throughout the Canadian organization were taking the measure …

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