Prague Meeting with 15 people in the AKORN Gallery in Praha 2, near the center of town, on a cool, but surprisingly clear evening, there was great good will but it was not always easy going. The ACORN, or AKORN as they call it here, activists and organizers were enthusiastic and had invited others to …
Tag: Czech Republic
Living Wages in Czech Republic and Being a Fly on the Wall as Labor and Parties Plan
Prague Much of the day seemed like a 100-mile march through Prague as I got to know the organizers and leaders of ACORN Czech on a 10000 walk around the city complete with churches, cemeteries, synagogues, statutes galore, breathtaking views, and more Czech-lish jokes that I would want to recount on how many structures …
Searching for Political Space in Prague and Elsewhere
Prague New countries, new languages, and new people seem constantly in front of me on this trip, but what is surprising whether here in Prague, Rome, Palermo, Cairo, or back home in the United States is how very, very similar the questions are everywhere in the world for progressives trying to create real change and …
Death Threats, Web Attacks, and Organizing Reports
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 …