Boston Since the ACORN Canada Year End/Year Begin staff meeting was in Boston this year, we have taken advantage of the location to invite some of the old hands of organizing to share their stories and perspectives from decades of experience in the work. We started with Bill Pastreich and Mike Gallagher for a fascinating …
Category: Organizing
Hitting the Doors in Ecuador
Quito Every country is different, every city is different, and every community is different. We start from there, and then we adapt what we have seen work in so many places and modify it to fit the circumstances and objectives of our organizing program. No matter how many times I have done this, it still …
Nonprofit Deductions, DREAMing, Facts, Live-In Wages, Tax Justice, and Twitter Access
Quito With 80% of the United States households earning, and therefore paying, taxes on incomes of less than $100,000 per year, that means that the vast majority of us are filing “short forms” on IRS 1040A. Independent studies regularly establish that the most generous Americans, when measured as a percentage of income, are those making …