Philadelphia The room had forty-seven chairs on the first floor of the John F. Kennedy Mental Health building where the Philadelphia Unemployment Project has offices on the eleventh floor. Craig Robbins, twenty-five-year ACORN veteran as a head organizer and lastly as deputy field director, now on the staff of PUP, had done most of …
Category: Community Organizing
We Are CASA
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Keith-Richards-01-Big-Town-Playboy-200019165.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsSilver Spring, Maryland A decade ago, I spent a week a month for more than six months working with what was then known as CASA de Maryland to develop a membership program for the organization. CASA was at the heart of the push for immigration reform on …
Finding the Organizing Handles for Climate Change at the Local Level
Baltimore The crowd that gathered in the teachers’ union meeting hall in Towson, Maryland was old and young, current and former organizers with unions, ACORN, activist and well-traveled others, so watching “The Organizer” for them was in many parts a good spirited time with laughs and wisecracks at all the right moments. The post-screening questions …