Mutual Aid for the Rest of Us

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Organizing

http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/wadesworldjan30.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       Maybe it’s because it’s the season? Not winter, but the season in the sense that “for every time there is a season,” as the psalm records. In this season, thinking about friends, comrades over decades of mutual struggle por la causa, and family who suddenly …

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Year End Meeting Highlights: Bengaluru, Checklists, and Campaigns

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New Orleans               Ten organizations from the US and Canada in our family of community organizations, labor unions, media operations, and social enterprises came together as we do every year in a Year End / Year Begin Meeting to evaluate the work of the past year and plan for the current year.  Beside the people meeting …

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Attacks on Fair Housing and Affordable Housing Demands

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New Orleans    Talking on “Wade’s World” on KABF with George Washington University sociology professor and frequent author, Gregory Squires, about his recent piece in Social Policy on the impact of the Occupy movement, he underlined his concern that the “disparate impact” theory is under review in the term of the US Supreme Court and the …

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