Productive Incoherence and Thinking Differently about Change

Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10242020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     A book entitled, The Sex Obsession:  Perversity and Possibility in American Politics, arrives in the mail with the word SEX in capital red letters along with obsession slightly smaller, and I didn’t know whether to take the cover off or cry uncle, having been lured …

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Police Plus Shots Equal Feet on the Street

ACORN ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock      About twenty Georgia State University School of Social Work students watched the film, The Organizer, in Atlanta recently.  I zoomed in for a questions-and-answers session after it finished.  The first question was straightforward:  how would I compare the work of ACORN with the Black Lives …

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Vote Tripling

ACORN ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10222020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Little Rock      In recent months I have been on a weekly voting call focusing on stopping voter suppression and increasing turnout in the US election on November 3rd.  Some of the participants with voter registrations in battleground states complain from time to time about the daily …

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