Pittsburgh The Pittsburgh ACORN Family Reunion Picnic organized by ANEW Institute in Homestead was battling bad weather forecasts and real raindrops that moved the affair from the park to the porch of the Baker House on 11th. The score of folks who came by couldn’t have cared less, because they got to see the progress on the renovation …
Category: Organizing
Hillary Rodham on Saul Alinsky, Community Organizing, and Change
Montreal I knew that Hillary Clinton, when still Hillary Rodham, had written her senior thesis at Wellesley College on Saul Alinsky and his work, and I had even talked to her about it briefly over lunch once in Little Rock in the early 1970’s, but I had never actually read it until the link was …
States Need to Make For-profit Hospitals Accountable for Strapped Families
New Orleans We have been beating the drum regularly here, there, and everywhere around the country about the organizing and campaign “handles” that could allow aggressive and vigilant community and labor based organizations to demand and require more accountability for tax-exempt nonprofit hospitals. We have trumpeted Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa’s late stage amendment to …