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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Surging Voter Registration in the United Kingdom

ACORN ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN12292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      Here’s an interesting voter registration story, but it’s not in the United States, but the United Kingdom.  I had been hearing about this phenomenon for weeks whenever I spoke with our organizers in England.  ACORN was working on a specialized program before the coming …

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