Edinburgh Riding on the train from Stafford to Edinburgh, I started reading a pamphlet produced by Locality, the big UK nonprofit. The title, “Saving Money by Doing the Right Thing,” had caught my eye sitting on a literature table at the training conference. The upshot was a contrarian, but in our experience accurate and corrective …
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Going to Action Camp 2014 with England’s Community Organisers Programme
Stafford From the outset let us state clearly that any time more than 400 people gather in the name and claim of community organizing it is categorically a great thing by definition, and a wonder to behold. This particular gathering, Action Camp 2014, organized by Locality, the overall coordinator and a UK nonprofit, has been pretty …
Training Government Community Organizers in England
London For a fascinating 8 hours 35 community organizers working throughout England in various communities in London, Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds, and elsewhere along with a sprinkling of organizing and trade union activists and organizers put their shoulders to the wheel in a meeting room of the London University Union to learn about the ACORN organizing …