St. Etienne You have to be careful what you ask for, even in meetings of organizers from ACORN affiliates all around the world. One of the requests from the meeting last year near Somerset, England, was that some of the discussions give some greater sense of strategy around policy in addition to actions and skills. …
Category: Community Organizing
Beginnings in Marseille
Marseille After a truck key exchange in the New Orleans airport with our son, returning from Turkey and Bulgaria, we flew to Newark and then onto Geneva, where we experienced the most efficient customs and luggage handling experience ever, putting us at the ticket counter for the shuttle train into the main station within thirty …
Hong Kong Teaches Risks in Social Media Mobilization
New Orleans Don’t get me wrong. Any group of organizers that can pull the trigger and pull out hundreds of thousands, then a million, and then possibly two million protestors on the streets out of a total population of seven million deserve wild praise and total respect. Such organizers can teach all of us …