Louisiana Co-ops Run from Democracy and Accountability

Ideas and Issues

New Orleans    Cooperatives should be the shining example that we hold up to corporate abuse and investors greed.  Idealists raise the prospects of cooperatives as the solutions for commerce, housing shortages and affordability issues, worker ownership, and all manner of other social problems everywhere I travel.  The experiments are small but exciting, and then there …

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Community Organizing is on their Minds in Italy Too

ACORN ACORN International Community Organizing Organizer Training Organizing

New Orleans      Changing planes between Tirana and Sofia, we ended up going through Rome.  Miraculously, my phone was working, so I reached out for David Tozzo, head organizer of ACORN in Rome, and happened to catch him.  It turned out that he was co-teaching a regular class on community organizing every other Saturday morning. …

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Irish Travelers

ACORN ACORN International Community Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Lula-Wiles-01-Nashville-Man-200015731.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans  So, some interesting things about Ireland for my father and others.  Seems the sun is a rare occasion in the western part of the country, though it was beautiful every day we were there.  Yes, we were glad to bring it along!  Seems Guinness is …

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