Edinburgh Unison is the 2nd largest union in the United Kingdom with a giant membership throughout the country in a wide variety of workplaces. The screening of The Organizer and a chance to meet members of ACORN’s affiliate, Living Rent, and ACORN Scotland, brought people together in one of Unison’s meeting rooms in the top …
Category: Labor Organizing
The Edifice Complex and the Tension between Intake and Outreach
Banska Stiavnica The small city of Banska Stiavnica was a rich, mining city in its heyday. The symbol of the city is two lizards, and the legend has it that a shepherd in the mountains saw them run under a rock. Turning over the rock, he saw one was covered in silver dust and the …
When Politics Becomes a Barrier, Rather than Leverage
Thessaloniki I was lucky. With little time and information, people we had met in Brussels with contacts back home in Greece were able to pull together ten or so activists of various stripes and persuasions agreed to come together to learn about ACORN and community organizing on a Saturday evening in Thessaloniki, the second largest …