English Community Organizing Program Tries to Plot a Path to the Future

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Stafford     The last cohort of 35 (not the Roman 100) organizers begins in July meaning that the Big Society Community Organising Programme will have started a training cycle on more than 500 organizers in roughly three years fulfilling their charge from Westminster and the Cameron Conservative government.  The last training component ends in March 2015 …

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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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Zero-hour Contracts, Compromise Agreements, and Payment by Outcomes

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London   One of the more frightening things about working around the world is stumbling over new ways that employers have found to screw workers.  In Great Britain with the erosion of labor protections and shrinking of unions, they seem to have mastered the art in new and imaginative ways, dressed in high style with fancy …

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