Niagara Falls Waking up after a long and productive training dialogue with Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada’s head organizer, for their talented lead organizers, I was reading The Globe and Mail. The comment page included a column by David Shribman, the executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette trying to explain the messy health care fireworks to …
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Twitter is a Mall
Hamilton Stephanie Ross from York University and Peter Sawchuck from University of Toronto had invited me to be the first speaker to discuss organizing with a group of academics and activists coming together on a 5-year project called APCOL: Anti-Poverty Community Organizing and Learning, a collaborative effort to evaluate how organizations approach issues and campaigns …
Where’s the Movement
Toronto The Centre for Community Partnerships sponsored by Hart House and SEIU Canada invited me to deliver the keynote at the University of Toronto on “Lessons from a Life in Community Organizing.” It was a stately room with sandwiches, fruit, and cheese at the back for the guests, and the crowd was warm, supportive, and …