Little Rock We were just talking a couple of days ago about how Canada was now monitoring every grassroots protest through their vast country. Being “Debbie Downer,” I speculated that you can bet that the USA is all over that, too. Almost simultaneously, what do you know, the UK-based Guardian runs a story saying essentially, …
Category: ACORN
Skyping Reports and Global Organizing Debates
Bristol After discussions of progress with the Remittance Justice Campaign and the Digital Access Opportunity Campaign in a number of countries, we hunkered down with some excitement to hear the reports on Skype from India, Kenya, and our Latin America offices. Many of the reports had been sent in writing to great comments. Applause greeted …
Tenant Health Protections Need to be Equivalent to Health Protections
Bristol As ACORN International organizers from Rome, Prague, Edinburgh, Bristol, Toronto, Vancouver, London, and the USA shared stories of issues, campaigns, and tactics in our annual meeting a surprising issue with global connections has begun occupying more and more of our conversations, beginning to crowd into time normally devoted to the cost of remittances and …