Mexico City The annual meeting of the ACORN International board continued its meetings for a second day in Mexico City, as they conferred on fundamental issues of support for existing work, self-sufficiency and support and expansion into new areas like Sicily and Liberia. Additional reports were heard from Mexico on the Neza water campaign and received …
Category: DC Politics
Effectiveness of Non-traditional Direct Action Kony Campaign
New Orleans In organizing, even in the smallest space of a neighborhood, we have always argued that you have to “create a happening” where the coming new organization seems to be everywhere on the tip of tongues, laundromat posters, telephone poles, mailings, and whatever tools could be assembled. The same is true of a political …
Justice Party’s Quixotic Quest
New Orleans I have a welcoming smile for the random door knocker and a ready ear for the venturesome out-of-the-blue cold caller, having been on that end of the phone and doors thousands of times, so when the good ol’ landline rang close to 9pm last night, I picked it up. Last night the old …