New Orleans Getting ready to roll for the airport and back to the UK to train organizers at something called Action Camp 2014 happening at a conference center near Birmingham run by a nonprofit called Locality that facilitates Prime Minister David Cameron’s Big Society initiative of putting 500 community organizers all across England. That should be …
Category: ACORN
Forty-four Years and Some of the Campaigns Still Stay the Same
New Orleans June 18, 1970 is on ACORN Canada and ACORN International calendars everywhere as Founder’s Day if you will. The day I drove into Little Rock from Boston via New Orleans to begin organizing ACORN. When you work every day to build something, one day follows another and each day now adds up to …
Protecting Bristol Bay and Putting Musicians in the Mix
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/wadesworldjune132014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock Outside of Alaska the people who immediately know where Bristol Bay is located are preparing to compete on the “Jeopardy” television show or a National Geographic Society geo-quiz thing, but thanks to a building campaign we might all need to start learning the location. And, …