Consolidating the Fight Against Housing Displacement in Canada

ACORN ACORN International Canada

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12152019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsQuebec City    After a day of training and reports, the ACORN Canada organizing staff really got serious when the Year End / Year Begin meeting began no holds barred wrestling with campaigns.  The discussion was particularly intense around the dual crises of affordable housing, beyond the reach …

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The Numbers Underneath the Art of Organizing

ACORN International Canada

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12142019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Quebec City    Listening to the national and office reports from the organizers ACORN Canada last evening at their Year End/ Year Begin meeting, I was making notes and trying to follow the breakthroughs on new campaigns and victories here and there over the year.  Most of the …

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Figuring Out Which Companies are Naughty or Nice

ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/CN12132019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsQuebec City    Even as the Brexit landslide seemed to be building in the formerly United Kingdom, the European Union leadership was piecing together an ambitious plan to achieve climate goals by 2050.  Their plan was to reach net-zero in carbon emissions at that point in a sweeping …

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