The Value of Collective Experience

ACORN ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04082020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       A couple of random comments have gotten me thinking a bit about the post-coronavirus world. One thing that stuck with me was a young man’s take on hoarding in New York City that was a throwaway line in a New Yorker piece.  In his …

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From Street Demos to Solidarity Work

ACORN ACORN International Community Organizing Health Care Labor Organizing

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 …

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Lessons in Leadership:  Captain Courageous vs. President Mr. Me

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04042020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     It’s not every day when the United States and any of the world that bothers to look gets such a stark lesson in leadership than what we have seen recently, both in what it is and what it is not. President Trump in a rambling …

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