Outside of Frome, England Once a year we try to bring as many of ACORN International’s organizing staff together as we can muster given the costs in time and travel. For years we would meet in Latin America somewhere: Mexico City, Quito, Lima, Tegucigalpa, and San Pedro Sula. As we have expanded in Europe, …
Category: Organizing
Is Neighborhood Activism the Answer or Part of the Problem?
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 …
The Science behind Triggering Tipping Points to Social Change
New Orleans I’m not sure any of you are ready for this, but we’re going to review today why it is worth keeping your shoulder to the wheel to push forward towards social change no matter the odds as long as you and your associates are committed and can count your base as growing. A …