New York City Showing the documentary, “The Organizer,” in Harlem, it was fun talking to old veterans, Jeff Elmer and Mariana Davenport, and hearing of others. Emma Graves-Fitzsimmons and I got a big laugh in the Q&A after the film when I acknowledged her as a daughter of organizers in the ACORN family after …
Category: Community Organizing
Philly in the House!
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 …
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 …