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 …
Category: ACORN
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 …
Toronto Elections Goes Canada Crazy, Notwithstanding
Woodhaven, Ontario In Paraguay the frame of reference was constantly back to the end of the dictatorship thirty years ago and the process of rebuilding civil society, institutions, and a democratic tradition in their country. Suddenly in Canada for the annual fall organizer training sessions and management meetings for ACORN Canada, I found myself …