Mission San Luis Rey, Oceanside, California: Every year for the last number we have done two sets of training for all of ACORN‘s new organizers. Mid-level includes all organizers with between six and eighteen months of experience and Advanced moves in many organizers who seem to be “keepers” a year after they have done mid-level. For …
Month: September 2004
Running from the Workers or the Bosses?
Houston: Building a union means fighting for every member, marking every inch of ground. The point has been brought home to us for the hundredth time again in Houston over recent weeks, but if for no other reason that to find the company that misery craves, let me share the hard tale. Starts simply enough. Workers …
AUPA!
Arequipa, Peru: As we made our way through sundry meetings in Arequipa, we kept hearing that in addition to the unions the other key ingredient that was vital to any successful equation in creating change in the city was AUPA. What we heard was tantalizing. Somehow AUPA was an organization stitched together across the pueblos jovenos …