Going to Action Camp 2014 with England’s Community Organisers Programme

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Stafford    From the outset let us state clearly that any time more than 400 people gather in the name and claim of community organizing it is categorically a great thing by definition, and a wonder to behold. This particular gathering, Action Camp 2014, organized by Locality, the overall coordinator and a UK nonprofit, has been pretty …

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Finding a Way out of the Maze: Citizen Wealth Centers

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Staffordshire     In organizing low-and-moderate income people both in the workplace and the community, one of the most vexing organizing problems has always been the Sisyphean dilemma, that no matter how many issues the organization might address, and even resolve, there were always scores of others, both personal and collective and often both, that were not being …

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The Military Sees Grassroots Organizing in USA and Globally as a Threat

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Little Rock       We were just talking a couple of days ago about how Canada was now monitoring every grassroots protest through their vast country.  Being “Debbie Downer,” I speculated that you can bet that the USA is all over that, too.  Almost simultaneously, what do you know, the UK-based Guardian runs a story saying essentially, …

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