Campaigning in the Time of Covid-19

ACORN ACORN International Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAtlanta     Every six months or so in recent years we have been pulling together community, labor, and political organizers, mostly in Europe and the United Kingdom, to share perspectives and organizing experiences.  Until the pandemic, we had met several times in Amsterdam.  Now we convened on Zoom …

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Living and Dying on the Numbers

Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06212020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River     A lesson close to the heart for every organizer is the importance of numbers.  An organization can live and die on the numbers.  Rising numbers are a sign of health, falling numbers are a flashing yellow caution light.  Good organizers learn quickly at their …

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Protests Disrupt, No Duh!

ACORN ACORN International Organizing Podcasts

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CN06172020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans     If I had a thousand dollars for every time someone, well-meaning or evil-intentioned, said to me, that “I could agree with ACORN, but I can’t agree with your tactics,” then we would have enough money in the bank to organize for years.  For …

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