Mumbai In the wild, web-by way of these things, I got an email from Jose Manual Escobido working with El Paso ACORN sending me a comment he thought would interest me about “rebranding community organizing” written by Lisa Ranghelli, now working with the National Center for Responsive Philanthropy in Washington, DC. We know Lisa …
Category: ACORN
ACORN Waste Pickers First Meeting
Delhi Having enrolled 1,000 members in the last several months into ACORN India’s first major organizing project in Delhi among informal workers working as waste pickers, the highlight of my trip was being able to be part of the first major organizing meeting of 50 delegates from the ACORN Waste Pickers in the …
Trader’s Rally
Delhi The temperature in these days is over 40 Centigrade, which I believe means over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s hot! We weren’t Englishmen, so we must have been the mad dogs, because we were out in the noonday sun for important reasons. Luckily, we were there though with the traders under a thin canopy …