Los Angeles:Â Sometimes small steps can take us great distances, and a meeting one night this week in California was an example of just that. Almost twenty organizers from ACORN and from the Service Employees International Union who had been working separately from San Diego to Sacramento met together to start the hard work of figuring …
Category: Community Organizing
Wal-Mart: Touching the Elephant
Washington, DC: With an admirable promptness an interesting and eclectic group of thirty folks convened for a simple task of trying to see how – together, if possible – they might be able to wrap their arms around an elephant – Wal-Mart – and come to understand it better. There is a litany of largeness about …
Low-Tech — High-Tech
Deep Cove, British Columbia: The methodology of organizing is constantly changing, and in some cases it seems to be moving in circles as much as onward and upward. The Community Leadership Centre organizers had two fascinating back-to-back experiences over the last several days. First, we took a road trip to Seattle and spent a day with …