Business Assistance Living Wage Campaigns

Community Organizing Financial Justice Labor Organizing Organizing WalMart

New Orleans               Support is increasingly lining up in New York City and elsewhere not simply for living wage ordinances, but more specifically for a more targeted type of living wage program where public dollars are partnered with private development.  These so-called “business assistance” living wage ordinances that also draw from experiences with “community benefit agreements” …

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

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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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TIDAL: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy

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December 9, 2011   New Orleans               A fellow organizer passed on an email to me yesterday that is worth sharing.  Occupy Wall Street put out a combination position paper / magazine / whatnot entitled:  “TIDAL: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy.”  I was able to access the PDF by googling the title directly, and you might want to …

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