ACORN Radio

Amanda Teske talks about her work in a new chapter of Ottawa ACORN fighting what they call "renovictions" in Canada, where an owner pushes renters out with the justification that their property needs renovation. __ Support the International by subscribing to ACORN Radio! Your $2.99 helps us cover costs and gets you subscriber only content from the archives and more: https://podcasters.sp...

Tragic headlines and fears of alienation have made some Americans reticent to knock on their neighbors' doors. Do we have another choice? __ Support the International by subscribing to ACORN Radio! Your $2.99 helps us cover costs and gets you subscriber only content from the archives and more: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acornradio/subscribe

Misha and Khaseya talk about their campaign to get Darnall's streets ship-shape. __ Support the International by subscribing to ACORN Radio! Your $2.99 helps us cover costs and gets you subscriber only content from the archives and more: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acornradio/subscribe

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Rizi Yasin and Mike Black talk with organizer Jamie about they used strength in numbers to win more than £40k in repairs as member defense. __ Support the International by subscribing to ACORN Radio! Your $2.99 helps us cover costs and gets you subscriber only content from the archives and more: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acornradio/subscribe

ACORN Canada's Marcia Bryan on some of the biggest fights ACORN Peel is engaged in. __ Support the International by subscribing to ACORN Radio! Your $2.99 helps us cover costs and gets you subscriber only content from the archives and more: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/acornradio/subscribe

Wade sits down with Professor John Womack and former ILWU Organizing Director Peter Olney to discuss their new book, Labor Power and Strategy. "What would it take to topple Amazon? To change how health care works in America? To break up the media monopolies that have taken hold of our information and imaginations? How is it possible to organize those without hope working on the margins? In La...

After a fatal fire late in 2022, residents got organised with  @acorn_bristol  to campaign for fire safety measures, and they won! Shaban, a leader of Bristol Towers United, chats with Bristol's head organizer about how £100m worth of fire safety measures will now be implemented across all of Bristol’s council tower blocks👊 Details👇 - £46m to remove potentially dangerous cladding - £32.7m fo...

This is a special rebroadcast of Blueprints of Disruption's interview with Alejandra Ruiz Vargas. It's a great dialogue that covers how ACORN works and ACORN Canada's big campaigns against renovictions, for rent control, and others. Check out Blueprints of Disruption, a great show about Canadian politics that lifts up movement work, here: https://blueprints-of-disruption.captivate.fm/...

Wade reflects on his years visiting Delhi and Mumbai and notes a concerning new trend. __ Support the International by subscribing to ACORN Radio! Your $2.99 helps us cover costs and gets you subscriber only content from the archives and more: https://anchor.fm/acornradio/subscribe

It's a barnburner with ACORN Newcastle! Serious heart AND brains on display here: deep insights into research, direct action, campaign strategy, leadership development, tactics-- all hard won through struggles to reopen Newcastle's public toilets and force landlords to institute eviction moratoriums. These Geordies have tackled the cost of living crisis head on and have a lot to share from...

Wade touches down in India and reflects on the changes since he was last there. Modi's government has laid out the red carpet for the G20, not so much for everyone else.  __ Subscribe to ACORN Radio! https://anchor.fm/acornradio/subscribe

Tucker Carlson-- do we have to keep hearing about him?? Unfortunately, yes. Most recently, he took a page from James O'Keefe's playbook and made a ridiculous distortion of the events of January 6th.  __ Subscribe to ACORN Radio! https://anchor.fm/acornradio/subscribe

In Swindon, the local council threatened to cut back on resources and help for seniors in sheltered housing--including slashing the number of on-site staff, or wardens, for each residence. The wardens there are essential supports, friends, and lifelines to older folks. When ACORN got wind of the plans, they united with the residents of the sheltered housing and, like ACORN does, raised hell to kee...

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Wade interviews playwright (and labor organizer) Gene Bruskin about his musical based on the Reconstruction and a meeting of the National Labor Union in 1870s. They also discuss the Smithfield union victory and the problems of organizing Amazon, as well as a coming musical about abolitionist John Brown. Check out the musical here: https://www.themomentwasnow.com/ __ Subscribe to ACORN Radio! https...

National Organiser for ACORN the Union in England and Wales Dave Aldwinkle speaks with Alistair Driscoll. Alistair was recently elected to the position of membership officer for the Leeds branch. He gives insight to what the role is, how and why we engage our members, and his experience from standing for election to becoming a leader within ACORN Leeds. __ Subscribe to ACORN Radio! https://anchor....

In England, a number of municipalities contract with bailiffs to do in your face debt collection on council taxes. It's a humiliating, often violent experience for the people on the receiving end of a bailiff's knock. ACORN members are campaigning in the North London borough of Haringey to put a stop to the practice of using them for council tax debts.  __ Subscribe to ACORN Radio! https://an...

Wade interviews Professor Silvia Rodriguez Vega of University of California at Santa Barbara about recent studies she conducted on the impact on children in immigrant families who live in constant fear about personal or family deportation and their immigrant status. Professor Vega summarizes the results of those studies in her recent book Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance among Immigrant Chi...

The picture is looking a bit grimmer in 2023 than it did in 2022.  __ Subscribe to ACORN Radio! https://anchor.fm/acornradio/subscribe

In this episode we hear from ACORN Lockleaze members Adrian Andrew and Evelyne Ndikumwami. Lockleaze is a local group which is part of ACORN Bristol, the biggest branch of ACORN the Union in England and Wales. Adrian and Evelyne discuss why they joined, their campaign to reduce speeding and dangerous driving in the neighborhood, and their ambitions for ACORN in the future.  __  Subscribe...

With the Super Bowl behind us, Wade takes on the explosion of sports betting.  ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here: https://acorninternational.org/index.php/acorn-advocates/ Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world: https://socialpolicy.org/ Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninter...

Ashley, Bader Abu-Zahra, and Eddy Roué talk about their work in Ottawa fighting the Conservative government's Bill 23. ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here: https://acorninternational.org/index.php/acorn-advocates/ Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world: https://socialpolicy.org/ Questions? C...

Wade Rathke on the justified public distrust toward out of control police.  ______ Support ACORN 's work around the world here: https://acorninternational.org/index.php/acorn-advocates/ Subscribe to Social Policy , the journal of contemporary movements for social change in the workplace, the community, and the world: https://socialpolicy.org/ Questions? Comments? E-mail research@acorninternat...

Putting your body on the line to stop the eviction of another member of your community is what ACORN's all about, but it's intense stuff. It takes training and trust to get ready.  This episode features Charlotte from Manchester about her experiences getting ready for an eviction defense, and we hear a bitfrom organizers around ACORN about how they approach training.  ______ Support ACOR...