First Steps to Building Community-Labor-Political Alliances without Shortcuts

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09082019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAmsterdam      It was just a first step.  ACORN had joined Ron Meyer and Lieke Smits, the principal officers of the Socialist Party Netherlands, in calling together a small group of twenty or so in the late summer who might be able to come together for a conversation …

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The Fight for Employment Status for App-workers Broadens

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09072019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAmsterdam      The Department of Labor under the Trump administration is doing all it can to assure app-based tech companies from Uber, Deliveroo, and others that they will bend over backwards to shield them from classification as directly employed workers rather than independent subcontracts.  Government agencies in an …

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Rats, Mold, and Entitlements:  A Party Embraces Community Organizing in Netherlands

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09062019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsHeerlen        In the evening thirty party activists assembled at headquarters for the evening’s program.  The introduction was straightforward.  Ron Meyer, chairman of the Socialist Party of the Netherlands, made some remarks, as we sat in the front of the room on high chairs.  I expressed my pleasure …

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