Portland A meeting is on the horizon this week with the Toronto elections commissioner and ACORN Canada to discuss how to meet ACORN’s demand that more voting stations be provided for city elections in the numerous high rise apartment buildings throughout the working districts of the city. ACORN Canada in its “Tenants Vote” campaign had …
Category: Community Organizing
Bancos de los Trabajadores
Tegucigalpa and Mexico City Early on Sunday morning walking through the centro in Tegucigalpa I noticed a branch of the Bancos de los Trabajadores, the Bank of the Workers. I had heard about them repeatedly the day before while meeting with the women in the colonias Ramon Amalia Amador, and we found ourselves discussing them …
Quien Digo Miedo?
San Pedro Sula It was a coincidence that we were in Honduras almost exactly a year after the elite coup that toppled the populist, democratically elected President of Honduras and installed an illegitimate puppet government after fierce opposition and international condemnation of the process. The story is well known by now. President Zayla was extricated …