Oostende, Belgium We took a train to something that our colleagues described to us as an annual political festival. Once we were at the train station, it only took about 75 minutes to get to Oostende from Brussels. We had left in sunny weather, but once past Burges, not far away, we could see the …
Category: ACORN International
The Dialectical Process Drives Good Organizing
Brussels It had been a busy day for our team in Brussels. We began with an early meeting with the home-and-away team to get our plans together. We split up with half of us heading to the office and half to hit the doors, meeting several members from our affiliate to test the rap …
Renters are About to Have Real Rights in UK
New Orleans I made a smart decision to attend a workshop of renters’ rights in the United Kingdom at the ACORN England and Wales first convention in Bristol. I knew we had been a key part of a housing reform coalition and built strong alliances to get something through parliament under the new …