Houston The annual Year End / Year Begin meeting of all of the ACORN family of organizations was dislocated, but the tribes had all gathered — the purple shirts of Local 880, the welcomed addition of the New York Working Families Party, all of the A-CLOC and Wal-Mart related organizers, and obviously everyone drawing a …
Category: Labor Organizing
Adult Education for Organizers
Chicago The Organizers’ Forum board facing the impossibility of getting hotel rooms in New Orleans (we tried!) decamped to Chicago for our board meeting continuing the post-Katrina dislocations. We took advantage of our visit to invite some organizers from the windy city to brave the snow and come visit with us and catch everyone up …
Trailer Search Saga
Shreveport Finally after three months unable to live in your own home and abandoning home of a FEMA trailer, you take action rationalizing that at the worst you will have something over your head, a way to live while working, something to put out at the camp construction, or maybe someday a way to take …