Fighting for Water and Land in Honduras

ACORN ACORN International Community Organizing Organizing

San Pedro Sula           The calendar surprised me.  I hadn’t really visited our offices, organizers, and members in Honduras for almost four years.  I had met our organizers other places, Mexico, Ecuador, and Houston, but had not actually been on the ground with them recently to measure the progress being made by the local organizations at …

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Is Neighborhood Activism the Answer or Part of the Problem?

ACORN Community Organizing Organizing

http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/No-Time-Like-The-Present.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans    I can vividly remember an argument I listened to from the back of the room perhaps fifteen years ago at an ACORN Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. where Robert Putnam, the Harvard sociologist and author of the often-cited book about the deterioration of community …

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