Niagara Falls Waking up after a long and productive training dialogue with Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada’s head organizer, for their talented lead organizers, I was reading The Globe and Mail. The comment page included a column by David Shribman, the executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette trying to explain the messy health care fireworks to …
Category: Community Organizing
Where’s the Movement
Toronto The Centre for Community Partnerships sponsored by Hart House and SEIU Canada invited me to deliver the keynote at the University of Toronto on “Lessons from a Life in Community Organizing.” It was a stately room with sandwiches, fruit, and cheese at the back for the guests, and the crowd was warm, supportive, and …
Organizational Service and Autonomy
Montreal What a great day in Montreal! There are so few chances to have good spirited and deeply serious conversations about organizing down to the level of what we have really accomplished and our serious challenges, that one meeting after another seemed a gift. Rolling off the road, Jill O’Reilly, director of Ottawa ACORN, and …