San Jose The Everett Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz specializes in technical solutions for social change organizations. ACORN has enjoyed a partnership with the program for the last three years that has seen several students work with our hawkers union in Bengaluru the first year, another team work with the ACORN …
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Why is it so Hard to Talk about Organizational Structure?
Milwaukee Amani United, like a butterfly trying to emerge from a cocoon, is an embryonic organization attempting to emerge from its status as a project of a larger organization into a membership, resident-led organization that can spread its own wings and fly. On this point everyone agrees, including the leadership core of Amani United and …
An Organizer Looks at the Yellow Vest Movement in France
Chicago There’s a lot of interest in the Yellow Vest movement in France. Because ACORN has an affiliate there, we’re often asked what is really going on. Yoan Pinaud, out head organizer in Aubervilliers for the Alliance Citoyenne ACORN, has been following the events closely and talked to many of the participants. We asked him to …