London When privatization of public services is ubiquitous, it’s actually kind of scary, as I just witnessed in England and Scotland. Catching a train from Edinburgh to London, I did a double take when I saw a pink Virgin train rolling down track 3 towards me as I waited to jump from Haymarket to …
Category: Organizing
Multiple Occupancy Tenants Moving in Edinburgh
Edinburgh I could feel the excitement in the conversations at the steering committee of the Edinburgh Private Tenant Action Group, an affiliate of ACORN International, as they started mapping out a plan to broadly organize the multiple occupancy tenants across the city. With home ownership an impossibility, many of all ages from students to decades …
Training Government Community Organizers in England
London For a fascinating 8 hours 35 community organizers working throughout England in various communities in London, Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds, and elsewhere along with a sprinkling of organizing and trade union activists and organizers put their shoulders to the wheel in a meeting room of the London University Union to learn about the ACORN organizing …