Just the Facts and Watching our Backs on Wikipedia

ACORN ACORN International Ideas and Issues

Vancouver   There is little argument anymore that Wikipedia, the on-line, crowd built “encyclopedia,” is the first source in the 21st century for innumerable high school and college term papers and much of the information random people get about most of the rest of us.   I can’t count the number of gnarly introductions I’ve gotten in different …

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Transformation, not Transactions: Preaching Community-Union Linkages to the Choir!

ACORN ACORN International Community Organizing Organizing

Victoria    When the topic of the leadership conference is “Building the Links:  Connecting Unions and Community,” and my 90-minute slot has the same title, it’s already a slow pitch to the plate looking for a big swing.  After weeks of singing for my supper on the road with translators in Spanish, Japanese, or Korean, it was …

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