London Talking to someone in the United Kingdom the other day, they made a comment that any new “bad” idea in the USA germinates for a couple of years and then pops up in a modified form in Britain. Yikes! One good, bad example can be found in the new voter suppression policies that are …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Finding the Line on Benefits and Drawing the Line on Rubbish
Edinburgh When it came time for the Leith ACORN branch chair to report on the accomplishments of the first 5 months of campaigns, the conversation among the leadership went from speculative and quizzical to animated and excited. As much as the big issues of lease security and rent management engaged everyone in the room, campaigning …
On Internet Fight, Follow the Money to Keep the Scorecard
Edinburgh The problem of transactional versus transformational organizing is nowhere clearer than in the lines being drawn around the issues of net neutrality and the internet as a public utility between old line civil rights groups and reformers. Some are trying to make much of seeing groups like the NAACP, LULAC, PUSH, and old lions …