Buenos Aires The excitement for this week had been the march scheduled on Friday evening in Barracas, one of the older communities by the Rio de la Plata, where we have been organizing for the last several years. The protest was to try to force the building of a police station on the Barracas …
Category: Community Organizing
Facebook Fundraiser
August 22, 2008 Buenos Aires Nothing starts early in Buenos Aries, so we went out at 9 PM to bar in Belgrano for a fundraiser for ACORN Argentina, and one of its projects, Club ACORN, which is an after school program for children in the Boca neighborhood near the Rio de la Plata. The event was targeted …
Obama’s Organizing Boss
Gulf Shores Reading Obama’s Dreams book, I became interested in the organizer Obama mentioned who had hired him in Chicago and was his supervisor. His name was Jerry Kellman, and he seemed to be the real thing, but I was surprised that I had never heard of him in all my years around the work. …