Ahitara, New Zealand The backbone of ACORN are members and leaders and that’s true of any solid, power-building community organization, tenants’ union or workers association. It was great to see Mike Wood profiled on the front page of the Hamilton Spectator, the old blue-collar city in Ontario only hours away from Toronto. I want to …
Category: Organizing
Citizen Diplomats, Citizen Reporters
New Orleans For the second year, we have interns visiting New Orleans from Eastern Europe in order to learn community organizing methodology. Last year we had a young woman from Sofia, Bulgaria. This year we will be hosting one woman from Albania and another woman from Bulgaria who is an anthropology professor and activist …
Oh, No! Jerry Jones and the Anthem Again!
New Orleans Around the globe, football means soccer, and the recently concluded quadrennial World Cup was its showcase. In America, football is a different thing altogether, especially when it comes to the endless draft-to-summer-to-exhibition-to-regular season-to-playoffs-to-Super Bowl, National Football League on the professional level. Once again, as exhibition games get ready to begin, we’re having …