Birmingham Nothing like learning something every day to keep you in the work, and I found myself almost starting from scratch trying to be helpful and value-added to ACORN’s Birmingham organizers who have been heavily involved in list building for a coming organizing drive using a technique they refer to as “stalls.” The simple steps are …
Month: October 2015
Big Progress in Bristol
Bristol Oh, the difference a year makes in an organization’s progress! I could feel it almost immediately as we walked to the new office on the border of St. Paul’s, a neighborhood we are preparing to launch an organizing drive, and Easton, the community that has been our bastion of strength. Walking to the left …
Newly Reelected Conservatives in UK Hitting Labor and the Poor Hard
London Whether meeting with organizers, union leaders, foundation and nonprofit executives or ACORN’s own organizers, almost always the conversations with drift over the difficult prospects for the next five years in the wake of the Conservative Party’s re-election, led by Prime Minister David Cameron, and the hope and fears accompanying the election of Jeremy Corbyn, …