New Communities and Community Land Trusts

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CN07012020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGreenville       Reading in Harper’s about New Communities farming land trust in Georgia celebrating the 50th anniversary since its founding, my memory is playing tricks on me.  I keep thinking that I met Charles Sherrod or at least was in a meeting at the same time with him, …

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Talking Organizing in Atlanta

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06282020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans  Having not flown in months, I was curious what was up in the airways.  My 6:15 AM on a Saturday to Atlanta was the first flight out of New Orleans.  That was already strange.  It used to be one of many.  Where was the 5:28 …

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Campaigning in the Time of Covid-19

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAtlanta     Every six months or so in recent years we have been pulling together community, labor, and political organizers, mostly in Europe and the United Kingdom, to share perspectives and organizing experiences.  Until the pandemic, we had met several times in Amsterdam.  Now we convened on Zoom …

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