Hamilton Stephanie Ross from York University and Peter Sawchuck from University of Toronto had invited me to be the first speaker to discuss organizing with a group of academics and activists coming together on a 5-year project called APCOL: Anti-Poverty Community Organizing and Learning, a collaborative effort to evaluate how organizations approach issues and campaigns …
Month: September 2009
Where’s the Movement
Toronto The Centre for Community Partnerships sponsored by Hart House and SEIU Canada invited me to deliver the keynote at the University of Toronto on “Lessons from a Life in Community Organizing.” It was a stately room with sandwiches, fruit, and cheese at the back for the guests, and the crowd was warm, supportive, and …
Organizational Service and Autonomy
Montreal What a great day in Montreal! There are so few chances to have good spirited and deeply serious conversations about organizing down to the level of what we have really accomplished and our serious challenges, that one meeting after another seemed a gift. Rolling off the road, Jill O’Reilly, director of Ottawa ACORN, and …