Nashville Quit Facebook? How can we? There are countries ACORN works where Facebook and the internet are synonymous. We have learned how to use Facebook as an organizing tool in England in recruiting members to the ACORN Tenant Union. We use it as a communications tool in many of our organizing drives and campaigns. Facebook …
Category: Labor Organizing
Gildan T-Shirts are a Tight Fit for Workers in Honduras
San Pedro Sula ACORN in Honduras has almost one-hundred members in the town of El Progresso, one of the many maquila centers for out-of-country manufacturing companies on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula and this area which is the industrial heart of Honduras. Since the biggest employer is Gildan, the Montreal-based t-shirt and textile company …
The Contradictory European Legacy of Saul Alinsky
Brussels Saul Alinsky would have wanted to be seen as a realist, so I can easily imagine him just shrugging and saying the equivalent of a “whatever” from more than 45 years ago. The right seems to read him more closely than the left, both in the US and abroad, but at least some are …