Is Neighborhood Activism the Answer or Part of the Problem?

ACORN Community Organizing Organizing

http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/No-Time-Like-The-Present.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans    I can vividly remember an argument I listened to from the back of the room perhaps fifteen years ago at an ACORN Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. where Robert Putnam, the Harvard sociologist and author of the often-cited book about the deterioration of community …

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New President in Mexico Could be Gamechanger

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Immigration Reform

http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/01_StopThis_War-1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      AMLO as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is known, has been elected president of Mexico by a wide margin with his new party promising to end violence and corruption and run the government on a progressive platform.  Not only did Obrador win, but his coattails also …

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Post-Janus Paths: Representation Compensation without Subsidies

Labor Organizing

Denver       National union strategists and lawyers have doubtlessly been proposing endless alternatives to blunt the impact of the long awaited Janus v. AFSCME verdict of the Supreme Court eliminating the ability for unions in more than twenty states to collect servicing fees from public sector nonmembers for collective bargaining and other functions.  The fruits of …

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