Milan There’s an old adage in organizing, that it’s not as much what happens in the meeting that counts, it’s what happens after the meeting that matters. Said another way, it’s all in the mop-up and the follow-up. If there were problems in the meeting, it’s how those problems can be solved or sanded …
Month: July 2019
Climate and Politics Take Center Stage in Organizers’ Debates
St. Etienne As the organizers shook of the aftermath of fellowship-and-solidarity time that had gone on until the wee hours and included robust singing with new verses to all ACORN songs, they hunkered into the discussions of how ACORN was addressing both climate change and politics. There were two approaches that organizers argued on raising …
Policy Discussions in the Weeds
St. Etienne You have to be careful what you ask for, even in meetings of organizers from ACORN affiliates all around the world. One of the requests from the meeting last year near Somerset, England, was that some of the discussions give some greater sense of strategy around policy in addition to actions and skills. …