Strong Towns:  Investing in Old, Lower-Value Neighborhoods, not More Infrastructure

ACORN Community Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11022019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       On the sometimes lonely march to try to advance and rebuild low-and-moderate income communities, it’s always a welcome relief to stumble on fellow travelers moving on much the same pathway.  At least that’s how I felt preparing to interview Chuck Marohn for Wade’s World, …

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“The Organizer” Comes to Ole Miss

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10302019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsOxford   Having breakfast at the University of Memphis before leaving for Oxford, Mississippi, home of the University of Mississippi, we were in a good mood after the Hooks Institute event the previous evening.  We laughed at the number of people in the audience that evening who …

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Hooks Institute for Social Change Looks at Memphis as a Tale of Two Nations: Rich & Poor

ACORN ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsMemphis       The Benjamin Hooks Institute for Social Change was established in 1996 by the University of Memphis and the late Benjamin Hooks, former president of the NAACP, originally from the city.  The Hooks Institute has a number of projects from documentaries to advancing the interests of …

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