Frankfurt Spending some time walking around Rodelheim, a working-class neighborhood in Frankfurt, with tenant activists was an on the ground master’s course in tenant rights and landlord power in Germany. The area is not gentrified exactly, but it is easy to see new developments coming in that could tip the scales dramatically. Having just looked …
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Welcoming Belgians and Germans to Community Organizing
Brussels There were more than twenty people in the room, mostly from Brussels area community-based development and service organizations, along with three last minute additions from Germany and one 11th hour insert from an NGO that Adrien Roux of the Alliance/ACORN in France and I had met several days ago. They were there for an …
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Paris Ok, perhaps the very first question on your list was not, “What do community organizers working around the world talk about when they first get together?” Too, bad, because it is actually a wild run of issues snatched from here to there. First on the list was the demonstrations by tens of thousands in …