Outside of Frome, England We were all organizers. We adapted and made the best of it, and then got to work. And, the work went amazingly well! The combination of video and oral reports the night before meant that the day’s business could get right to the meat of the matter of sharing organizational …
Category: ACORN
Some Good News for Low-Income Families Hoping for Homes in Cincy & Detroit
New Orleans For lower income and working families in these days of escalating rents and no money flowing in the credit deserts, the old saying that if it “weren’t for bad news, there wouldn’t be any news at all” feels too much like an everyday story. In Detroit and Cincinnati recently, there was some good …
Is Neighborhood Activism the Answer or Part of the Problem?
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/No-Time-Like-The-Present.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans I can vividly remember an argument I listened to from the back of the room perhaps fifteen years ago at an ACORN Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. where Robert Putnam, the Harvard sociologist and author of the often-cited book about the deterioration of community …