Milwaukee Before taking my traveling road show from Madison to Milwaukee, I spent some time in the ACORN archives that are part of the Social Change Collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Perhaps four years ago, WHS archivists had picked up another 35 cartons of material from our hall in Baton Rouge where we were …
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Salud Promodores, Barefoot Doctors, Home Health Workers, and Iranian Health Houses Come Knocking
New Orleans In organizing the process of strengthening weak ties to build the strong welds of solidarity can be very personal, tediously time consuming and therefore prohibitively expensive, and involve huge scale human engineering in order to create deep organizations, which is partly why organizers use other tools like actions and demonstrations to achieve scale …
Joyce Miller: First Lady of Labor
New Orleans Meeting Joyce Miller was one of those happy coincidences. Her son, Josh, was working as a researcher for ACORN in Arkansas in the 1970’s, which gave her an excuse to visit the state and the rest of us an opportunity to meet her. The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) was something that mattered …