New Orleans I love my job! Given the differences in international time zones there are surprises all hours of the day and night, because good organizing is happening 24 hours a day. We are about to celebrate this with the publication by Social Policy Press of Global Grassroots: International Perspectives on Organizing this week, but …
Category: Community Organizing
Forty-one Years of ACORN: Celebrating a Day in the Work
Ottawa Having founded ACORN in Little Rock, Arkansas forty-one years ago today, it is hard not to reflect on how fortunate I have been to be a part of ACORN in one form or another all of those years, first as Chief Organizer of ACORN in the United States for thirty-eight years and now adding …
Ushahidi, the White African, and the Power Tools for Community Organizations
Nairobi We met the future, and it is us! Ok, calm down, it’s not that easy, and it will take awhile to get there, but my Paladin Partner, Drummond Pike, the ACORN Kenya staff, Sammy and David, ACORN Canada’s Judy Duncan, and me sat down with Erik Hersman (@whiteafrican) of Ushadhidi, an amazing tech nonprofit …