Using Community Organizing to Change the Welfare System in Korea

ACORN International Organizing

Seoul     Without a doubt this is all backwards.  I’m giving one of the keynote addresses to the International Seoul Welfare Forum 2012 about the ways that the City of Seoul could reorganize its welfare delivery system through its “community welfare centers” so that 20% of the operation is founded on “community organization” methodology.  We had …

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No News, No Power, No Way

Coffee

New Orleans  This is the way pre-industrial societies and social networks operate. Somehow I opened in the darkness with the generator roaring, doors flung wide open, and by the light of a flashlight at 630 AM telling folks at Fair Grinds Coffeehouse that I had lots of choices.  I had “hot coffee” and I had “hot …

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