Stafford From the outset let us state clearly that any time more than 400 people gather in the name and claim of community organizing it is categorically a great thing by definition, and a wonder to behold. This particular gathering, Action Camp 2014, organized by Locality, the overall coordinator and a UK nonprofit, has been pretty …
Category: ACORN International
Feeling the Love, Outrunning the Haters
New Orleans Getting ready to roll for the airport and back to the UK to train organizers at something called Action Camp 2014 happening at a conference center near Birmingham run by a nonprofit called Locality that facilitates Prime Minister David Cameron’s Big Society initiative of putting 500 community organizers all across England. That should be …
Forty-four Years and Some of the Campaigns Still Stay the Same
New Orleans June 18, 1970 is on ACORN Canada and ACORN International calendars everywhere as Founder’s Day if you will. The day I drove into Little Rock from Boston via New Orleans to begin organizing ACORN. When you work every day to build something, one day follows another and each day now adds up to …