Seattle: The Organizers’ Forum was holding its spring dialogue in Seattle this year and focusing on how organizers of various stripes and varieties could either understand or utilize “framing.” This has been a hot button notion recently with the popularity of George Lakoff and his books about Moral Politics and other popular titles. Sweated down, framing …
Month: April 2005
Si Kahn and the ACORN National Board
Charlotte: With all of the expansion of new offices in ACORN the national board has had a policy in recent years to meet in new offices in order to see the progress and give the local leaders a shot in the arm and some general solidarity and encouragement. In recent years spring and fall has …
Canada Goes Wild
Tampa: It is not every day that we get to make someone happy, but especially when it is so easy to do so, I can not resist! In Canada the Government is falling. A nasty bit of business where it appears money was diverted from the federal coffers to that of the ruling party and …