Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Time Banking, and Know Your Care

ACORN ACORN International Canada Community Organizing International

Detroit             The ACORN Canada staff finished an excellent Year End / Year Begin meeting in “southern Canada” across the river from Windsor in Detroit, where 15 of the team discussed campaigns, results of last year’s work, and goals for the coming year.  In order to get a sense of other organizing while they were in …

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Occupy Winter, Yurts, and Tents

Canada Protests

New Orleans For the last several days way too many of us have left messages on union voice mail machines (gee, no one has anyone answering phones with live people anymore!) all over the United States trying to find union-made sleeping bags and union-made tents for Occupy forces in the Midwest and other colder climes …

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Myles Horton and Occupy Decision Making Structure

ACORN International Canada Ideas and Issues Organizer Training Organizers Forum

Toronto It is interesting to be reading Myles Horton’s autobiography, Long Haul, with its firmly held views on popular education, starting with where people are, supporting social movements, student-run and student-led educational experience, and “circles” of learning that are leaderless in pursuit of knowledge and at the same time hear and think about the Occupy …

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