Memphis After several days in Arkansas working with Vision Property Management owner-occupants from Jacksonville to West Memphis, the ACORN Home Savers Campaign was preparing to dive into Memphis. Of course, we wanted to follow up with Vision owner-occupants there, but we were also interested in some of the other large rent-to-own and contract purchase companies …
Category: Organizing
Facebook Could be a Powerful Organizing Recruitment Tool, If We Could Afford
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/All_that_we_are.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans There was an intriguing and in some ways unsettling piece in the New York Times recently about the growing power of Facebook and friends called “The Ads That Know Everything” by Burt Helm. The title of the piece in the online version lowered the “fright” …
The City of the Future is Not a Technical Problem
New Orleans We have been lucky the last month. ACORN International has enjoyed the help of a smart and adventuresome young woman, Luba Batembergska, from Sofia, Bulgaria with wide interests in social justice, environment, education, and social welfare. We have tried to embed her deeply in various organizing field experiences to give her tools and …