Niagara Falls Waking up after a long and productive training dialogue with Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada’s head organizer, for their talented lead organizers, I was reading The Globe and Mail. The comment page included a column by David Shribman, the executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette trying to explain the messy health care fireworks to …
Category: Health Care
Where’s the Movement
Toronto The Centre for Community Partnerships sponsored by Hart House and SEIU Canada invited me to deliver the keynote at the University of Toronto on “Lessons from a Life in Community Organizing.” It was a stately room with sandwiches, fruit, and cheese at the back for the guests, and the crowd was warm, supportive, and …
Bailout the Poor
San Francisco Erik Eckholm of the Times is one of the last reporters on the “poverty beat” in the country, and by god I almost feel a personal obligation to read his pieces and try to get the word out before the paltry news of the poor disappears from papers altogether. He was on the …