London Our last meeting in London before schlepping our gear towards Heathrow was with a charming activist named Claire Milne over coffee and tea near Kings Crossing. Claire is part of something called the Essential Services Access Network in Britain, which we’re clearly going to have to learn more about. Interestingly, we were talking about …
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Unions Building Community Organizations in Britain
London In an interesting development several large labor unions, including Unison and Unite, are building what they call community organizing programs in recognition of the increasing importance of communities in building their programs. In the case of Unite, the country’s largest labor union with more than 2 million members, organizers meeting with me in London …
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 …