Tegucigalpa A critical feature to the annual international meeting of the ACORN International board and staff beginning last year in Lima and now with both excitement and trepidation is the reports from offices around the world on their progress. All of this is well and good, but we use Skype and our life blood is …
Tag: Community Organizing
Community Organizing is a Revolutionary Tool
New Orleans I retweeted something last week where someone had said, “Glenn Beck takes the left more seriously than anyone else,” or words to that affect, simply because it was true. For all of his buffoonery and conspiracy theories, Beck is on to something: he knows community organizing is serious business, and he knows that …
Where is Community Organizer in Chief?
Baltimore Catching up on reading on the plane was disturbing in big and small ways. How in the world has Obama so badly lost his groove? What happened to the understanding and instincts of an organizer, being able to listen, forge the rap and flyer that works, and lead through others? A piece by George …