London            I had met with our ACORN London crew nine months earlier as they were just beginning their work here.  Now there were branches formed in Haringey, a launch coming soon in Hackney, and other groups forming with actions here and there and more than 400 members now in this brief period.  The …

  Bradford Visiting with one of ACORN’s newest emerging branches in Bradford, a unique, mid-sized, growing former mill town in England’s north, not far from Leeds, was fascinating.  Leaving the train with Kat Wright, ACORN UK’s field director, we walked through the center of town and then up the hill past colleges and universities until …

            Sheffield          There were people there from towns that I recognized, but had never been like Oxford, Liverpool, Cornwall, Cambridge, and Haringey. Others were from cities where I had visited our branches before in Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Brighton, Newcastle, and of course Sheffield, which was hosting the conference at St. Mary’s near the center …