Kewakawa, New Zealand I’d seen a positive review of Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass by Darren McGarvey, so I put it on my list for vacation reading. My interest was particularly piqued because he was focusing on Glasgow, Scotland, where our organizing is making strong progress, and I had recently spent time …
Category: ACORN
ACORN Canada’s Leader, Mike Wood, is Front Page News
Ahitara, New Zealand The backbone of ACORN are members and leaders and that’s true of any solid, power-building community organization, tenants’ union or workers association. It was great to see Mike Wood profiled on the front page of the Hamilton Spectator, the old blue-collar city in Ontario only hours away from Toronto. I want to …
Interesting Questions from the Netroots Crowd
New Orleans Netroots has become a big event for the digerati, especially the subset involved in internet campaigning and the like. This year they held their annual confab in New Orleans. In August, believe me on this, the Morial Convention Center makes some deals to bring people into the city, and, thank goodness, they brought …