Los Angeles:Â Sometimes small steps can take us great distances, and a meeting one night this week in California was an example of just that. Almost twenty organizers from ACORN and from the Service Employees International Union who had been working separately from San Diego to Sacramento met together to start the hard work of figuring …
Category: Labor Organizing
Wal-Mart: Touching the Elephant
Washington, DC: With an admirable promptness an interesting and eclectic group of thirty folks convened for a simple task of trying to see how – together, if possible – they might be able to wrap their arms around an elephant – Wal-Mart – and come to understand it better. There is a litany of largeness about …
Mulroney Masks and Electric Pigs
Deep Cove, British Columbia: The organizers of the Community Leadership Centre’s first cycle got a treat on Friday when Bill Tieleman gave us all some tips on communication in these hard times. Bill wears a number of hats: principal behind Weststar Communications, former reporter for the Vancouver Sun, political columnist for the weekly Georgia Strait, weekly …