Toronto The board meeting for ACORN Canada was fascinating. Leaders were in Toronto from the local groups here as well as from the newly organized units in Ottawa in three different neighborhoods and from Surrey and New West around Vancouver. It’s always interesting how much can be learned when the leaders gather. ACORN …
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Updates and Catch-ups
New York On a plane again after being mostly in New Orleans for two weeks, so I am again looking at the callow scowls of men and women speedily sleep walking through airport corridors as they rush on to these modern buses with wings trying to get from here to there. Brings me to notes …
Changing Habitat
New Orleans One of the “laws” of organizing I have often repeated to new organizers, frequently to blank stares, is that in organizing, “the beginnings prejudice the ends.” In English that is supposed to mean that the organizational structure and form often predetermine function. In simpler terms it is very, very hard to ever …