Thessaloniki The twenty people watching “The Organizer” documentary screening in the classroom at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, were all either PhD candidates in political science or professors. They began with a good, open-minded attitude and were friendly and tolerant as we worked to get the pieces together at the last minute. We …
Category: ACORN
How Many Rural Electric Cooperatives Can Stand the Glare?
New Orleans In 2016 after an exhaustive research project on all of the rural electric cooperatives in the twelve Southern states ACORN and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center published two reports on our website, as well as in two issues of Social Policy. One looked at the lack of diversity and absence …
Déjà vu in Ontario with “Donald” Ford, Conservative Premier
Sandy Lake, Ontario Finally at the end of the day with the dinner bell ahead of the ACORN Canada staff at the management and new staff training, Judy Duncan, the head organizer, directed all of us to the next item: “Ontario campaigns ‘fight back’ – what is possible?” Here we were almost two years …