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Continuing Development Wars
Austin Austin still has the feel of a city on the bright side of the recession. Unemployment has hardly hit 6%. The airport is new and busy. Developers are still trying to build and finish...
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Wages of Work and Welfare
New Orleans Newspapers over the weekend from London to Washington and New York are full of stories about the increasing wages of the top dogs in the financial industries on Wall Street and the City of...
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Nick Von Hoffman on Alinsky
New Orleans Driving back from a union bargaining session at the NASA Michoud facility I just missed a call from a 207 area code. Returning the call, it was a pleasant surprise to find the caller was...
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Where is Community Organizer in Chief?
Baltimore Catching up on reading on the plane was disturbing in big and small ways. How in the world has Obama so badly lost his groove? What happened to the understanding and instincts of an...
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Community Organizing is a Revolutionary Tool
New Orleans I retweeted something last week where someone had said, “Glenn Beck takes the left more seriously than anyone else,” or words to that affect, simply because it was true. For all of his...
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Death Threats, Web Attacks, and Organizing Reports
Dilcia Zevala giving the Tegucigalpa Report 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...
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The Curious Contradictions of Community Organizing and the United Kingdom –...
New Orleans Nothing about the Cameron government “Big Society” initiative to insert community organizers into poor areas around the United Kingdom seemed very organic or likely to succeed once the...
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The Curious Contradictions of Community Organizing and the United Kingdom –...
New Orleans Without having read the final paperwork on Locality’s winning proposal to train 500 community organizers and the final contract terms agreed to by the British government, it can be...
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Non-Standard Workers are the New Informal Workforce in Japan
informal workers New Orleans Casual, temporary, irregular (Korea), part-time, and informal are all terms of art in different countries describing everywhere essentially the same global workforce...
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Immigration Arrests: A Sign of Tactical Shift or Desperation
Little Rock More than forty representatives of unions, community groups, and pro-immigration reform advocates were arrested for civil disobedience in Washington, D.C. for street blocking in traffic....
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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...
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HUD Section 3: An Organizing Opportunity for Winning Jobs in Our Neighborhoods
New Orleans Within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Section 3 is nothing new after 45 years of enactment, but it remains a powerful weapon for creating employment in low...
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Got to Root for the Pope, because He’s Rooting for Us!
New Orleans I don’t know if Pope Francis sees himself as a community organizer or not, but if he doesn’t, I’m pretty sure he’s vying for a position as head cheerleader, and I swear I can see him...
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Hiring Preferences
London Talking with organizers in France and England about hiring and recruiting organizers exposes some interesting paradoxes and time lapses. In France, the preferred field to plow was often the...
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Getting the Lead out in Milwaukee’s Amani Neighborhood
Milwaukee If you want to really be helpful in leadership development or organizer training, you can’t just pull a bunch of old training documents off the hard drive, print the agendas, change the...
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Students Rising in Albania
Tirana On our schedule it simply said “Community Organizing Talks” at 6 PM in the evening. It had been a full day that began with taping a radio interview on a national station, a walk through the...
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Hopelessness and Hope Among Young People in Albania
high school students Ndroq and Tirana We drove to Ndroq, a village of about 5000 people, that is part of the municipality of Tirana, Albania, even though it took us almost an hour to get there....
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June 17, 2021 San Francisco Having missed my regular visits to the Bay Area of California during the pandemic year, I tried to fill my dance cards with organizing friends, comrades, and partners...
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