Columbus, Ohio: The ACORN National Association Board wisely decided to have its fall meeting in Columbus because it sensed that Ohio could be ground zero in the critical last weeks before the United States presidential election. The polls had been bouncing around like ping pong balls with Kerry ahead one day and Bush the next. Both …
Category: Community Organizing
Asian Community Organizers’ Network
New York City: Organizing is often a matter of drawing the lines as quickly as possible — and as straight and true — as you are able between several points – or people – to bring them all together. Recently, I was cementing just that kind of connection where disjointed and skimpy pieces of information somehow …
London Citizens
London: On the tube from Heathrow my neighbors looked at me peculiarly on the subway as I pointed out a huge rainbow that could be seen simply by looking out the window. After the dry weather during most of my time in Africa, the dark clouds and touches of rain seemed very London, and at the …