Chicago The Organizers’ Forum board facing the impossibility of getting hotel rooms in New Orleans (we tried!) decamped to Chicago for our board meeting continuing the post-Katrina dislocations. We took advantage of our visit to invite some organizers from the windy city to brave the snow and come visit with us and catch everyone up …
Category: Community Organizing
Measuring Results
Hartford Professor Don Green from Yale made the point in a dry, but dramatic, manner: do the tests, make them random, and then let the data speak. He was talking about measuring the results of ACORN in get out the vote efforts in Phoenix, Bridgeport, Detroit, and elsewhere. For the money and the impact there …
ACORN Perspectives at UCONN
Hartford I arrived as Peter Drier from Occidental College finished his paper and Frances Fox Piven from GUNY presented her views on the tensions between protest and electoral politics. The fur was flying in the genteel manner of the academy. It was a wonderful experience to be a “fly on the wall,” as serious thinkers worried …