April 4, 2021 Pearl River The ACORN Union in the United Kingdom is largely composed of tenants. Over the last six years, we’ve ballooned to over 6,000 dues-paying members in more than thirty chapters all over England and Wales, with another several thousand in our Scottish affiliate, where there are an additional bunch of branches. …
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From Street Demos to Solidarity Work
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04052020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River What do mass-based organizations and social movements do when their tactics of mass action, disruption, and street protests are impossible due to stay-at-home orders and social distancing? Do collective actions simply devolve into solitary moans on social media? No, never! Mass-based organizations assemble the base …
Cranes Soaring to Escape London
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01292020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans One thing that intrigued me in both England and Ireland over the last two weeks was the amount of construction in every city I visited. These were not little small-time projects, but giant cranes building skyscrapers in most of the cities. Manchester was out of …