Toronto In a classic community organizing case of people discovering that what they had thought was a personal problem was actually a collective issue, a workshop on campaigning to bridge the digital divide at the ACORN Canada bi-annual convention became group bonding over virtually universal experiences of telecom rip-offs, price gouging, bad service, predatory practices, …
Category: ACORN International
The Coming End of Textbooks in Los Angeles, Nairobi and Beyond
Toronto Colleges and universities increasingly are requiring students to show up for the first day of classes with their own computers or iPads, just like years ago standard equipment might have included a tablet, pens, pencils, and a lunch pail. Los Angeles Unified School District, the 2nd largest school district in the country after New …
Indian Wastepickers Ready to Train New Yorkers!
Los Angeles Mayor Bloomberg is now adding composting as another key ingredient of his urban-futures program in New York City joining his other major campaigns around smoking in private establishments, too much sugar in sodas, and gun control, and I’m all for it! The case he has laid out is impeccable. There are savings in …