Myles Horton and Occupy Decision Making Structure

ACORN International Canada Ideas and Issues Organizer Training Organizers Forum

Toronto It is interesting to be reading Myles Horton’s autobiography, Long Haul, with its firmly held views on popular education, starting with where people are, supporting social movements, student-run and student-led educational experience, and “circles” of learning that are leaderless in pursuit of knowledge and at the same time hear and think about the Occupy …

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Occupy!

Organizing Protests

Palermo Continued questions from Cairo to Palermo and a constant stream of email messages received on the road, convince me that the Occupy movement is building momentum.  It is certainly getting attention, increasingly from serious organizers, labor unions, and others.  The news coverage on BBC, Russia Today, and the CCTV Chinese English language station is …

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