St. Etienne As the organizers shook of the aftermath of fellowship-and-solidarity time that had gone on until the wee hours and included robust singing with new verses to all ACORN songs, they hunkered into the discussions of how ACORN was addressing both climate change and politics. There were two approaches that organizers argued on raising …
Category: ACORN
Policy Discussions in the Weeds
St. Etienne You have to be careful what you ask for, even in meetings of organizers from ACORN affiliates all around the world. One of the requests from the meeting last year near Somerset, England, was that some of the discussions give some greater sense of strategy around policy in addition to actions and skills. …
Organizers Coming Together
St. Etienne Most people convened in Lyon, the second largest metropolitan area in France, either flying into its airport or rolling into the train station from all points. Some shuttled from the Lyon station to the Bas station near St. Etienne and waited for a pickup from the cars driving in from Grenoble, Lyon, Frankfurt, …