Outside of Frome, England We were all organizers. We adapted and made the best of it, and then got to work. And, the work went amazingly well! The combination of video and oral reports the night before meant that the day’s business could get right to the meat of the matter of sharing organizational …
Month: July 2018
Retreat and then Attack from 42 Acres
Outside of Frome, England Once a year we try to bring as many of ACORN International’s organizing staff together as we can muster given the costs in time and travel. For years we would meet in Latin America somewhere: Mexico City, Quito, Lima, Tegucigalpa, and San Pedro Sula. As we have expanded in Europe, …
All Politics National? All Power Local
Newark I recently read a fascinating argument by Yascha Mounk, a Harvard instructor in The New Yorker that was wrapped in the cover of a review of some new books trying to puzzle through the political life of the nation currently. The heart of the argument Mounk and some of the cited authors made, to …