Toronto: The Community Leadership Centre (www.columbiainstitute.ca) reassembled our organizer trainees in Toronto to have them debrief from their first dozen weeks in the field and do some intensive training on campaign mechanics before their second stint of field assignments. We were a smaller, but hardier crew as we pulled into Victoria College on the University of …
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Watching Fahrenheit 9/11 in Lafayette with Local 100 Leaders
Lafayette: An extra treat for our annual SEIU Local 100 Leadership Conference this year was a last minute addition and an unexpected surprise. One of our office staff approached me on the Friday before we left for Lafayette about how I would feel about some entertainment for the leadership meeting? Why not, I thought. She then …
Summer School for Social Change
Montreal: In June it is hard not to love this city where old and new, French and English, all come together in a different mix every day. What made Montreal especially interesting to me though was the opportunity to spend a couple of days going from class to class in a very unusual summer school – …