Galway We woke up in a graveyard in Limerick in the shadow of a castle. Well, not actually in the graveyard, but along the church wall separating us from the graveyard maintained by the Limerick Civic Trust along with the church which had been in steady operation since the mid-500’s and renovated 200 years ago, …
Category: Community Organizing
Listening to Tenants in North Dublin and Limerick
Limerick Hitting the ground in Dublin, Nick Ballard, ACORN UK head organizer, and I jumped in the car with Tomas O’Loingsigh and Seamus Farrell, and we were on our way to visit with activists at the Darndale housing estate in North Dublin. The social housing complex numbered over 5000 units stretched over quite a piece …
The Challenge of the Roma Church over Civil Rights and its Role
Samodov and Razlog, Bulgaria Although Samodov is only a bit more than 40 miles from Sofia, driving in the new sudden snowfall in and around the mountains Rila and Vitosha took us several hours. That wasn’t the only surprise of the day. What started as a casual meeting and tour of Hub-A, a municipally supported …