Vancouver There is little argument anymore that Wikipedia, the on-line, crowd built “encyclopedia,” is the first source in the 21st century for innumerable high school and college term papers and much of the information random people get about most of the rest of us. I can’t count the number of gnarly introductions I’ve gotten in different …
Category: ACORN International
Hating on ACORN as Election Countdown Nears in USA
Victoria We are hardly more than a week until the USA Presidential election and predictably the conservative rightwing is pulling out the big guns and narrowing their sights for the kill, but surprisingly many are still aimed at ACORN, now almost two years gone. Sure, it’s not as bad as it was four years ago. One …
Transformation, not Transactions: Preaching Community-Union Linkages to the Choir!
Victoria When the topic of the leadership conference is “Building the Links: Connecting Unions and Community,” and my 90-minute slot has the same title, it’s already a slow pitch to the plate looking for a big swing. After weeks of singing for my supper on the road with translators in Spanish, Japanese, or Korean, it was …