Seattle: One of the big hits of the Organizers’ Forum had to be our old friend, the peoples’ pollster: Celinda Lake. Some of us have known Celinda virtually since she came out of Montana decades ago, but in the time since she has been the pollster of choice whenever an ACORN or the AFL-CIO or …
Category: Community Organizing
Framing
Seattle: The Organizers’ Forum was holding its spring dialogue in Seattle this year and focusing on how organizers of various stripes and varieties could either understand or utilize “framing.” This has been a hot button notion recently with the popularity of George Lakoff and his books about Moral Politics and other popular titles. Sweated down, framing …
Si Kahn and the ACORN National Board
Charlotte: With all of the expansion of new offices in ACORN the national board has had a policy in recent years to meet in new offices in order to see the progress and give the local leaders a shot in the arm and some general solidarity and encouragement. In recent years spring and fall has …