Global Leadership

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues

Global Leadership             Boston             Dr. Astier Almedon, a fellow at the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership from Eritrea who directed the International Resilience Program, was our gracious host and moderator for an afternoon at the college meeting first with faculty and later with an interesting group of students.  It had been a commitment of the “in for …

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Sustainable Canada

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing

Sustainable Canada November 15, 2008             Vancouver       Judy Duncan, national head organizer for ACORN Canada, and I visited with two very different, but fascinating groups yesterday, that might be good partners in the future for our work in Canada.  One was called Toxic Free Canada, formerly the Labour Environmental Alliance, whom I had met several …

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