Housing is Healthcare!

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04102020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     At ACORN we like the slogan, “Housing is Health Care.”  We saw it or picked it up somewhere.  I wish I could remember, so I could give proper credit, but in the meantime, we’re touting this in many countries where we work, because it speaks …

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Defanging Community Organizing

ACORN ACORN International Community Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04092020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River     There’s something happening to community organizing, and it’s not a good thing.  The job is being expropriated and defanged of its critical content and its bottom-up push for peoples’ power by corporate and political interests.  This isn’t necessarily a new phenomenon, but it’s getting …

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The Value of Collective Experience

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04082020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       A couple of random comments have gotten me thinking a bit about the post-coronavirus world. One thing that stuck with me was a young man’s take on hoarding in New York City that was a throwaway line in a New Yorker piece.  In his …

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