Paris Listening to the reports from the head organizers in the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and operations in the United States was so exciting. There had been real progress in one campaign after another. Questions were fired back-and-forth on the details of various campaigns. Exactly what was involved in the landlord licensing victory won in …
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Hot Topics for International Organizers
Paris Ok, perhaps the very first question on your list was not, “What do community organizers working around the world talk about when they first get together?” Too, bad, because it is actually a wild run of issues snatched from here to there. First on the list was the demonstrations by tens of thousands in …
Hard Changes Coming to France?
Paris The day began with an ominously when I woke up at 2:05 AM for my 2:45 AM ride to the 3:17 AM train to Budapest. After taking a shower, I realized that in the dark, I had misread the time, and it was now 12:20 AM, not 2:20 AM. It was going to be …