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Tips and Tools #18: Building an Organization: Counting the Doors and Organizing Math – Part II
Recently, I was shadowing some of our organizing committee members when they hit the doors in the Mountjoy-Dorset neighborhood of Dublin as they ventured forward to build the first community organization in ACORN’s newest affiliate in Ireland. In…
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A New Start for an Old Fight
“Please don’t be my bullies, too.”
These words echoed loud against the salmon-pink walls of room 114 of the Ohio Statehouse. They concluded the testimony of 11-year-old Sean Miller, a transgender girl offering her story of fighting…
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A Valentine to the Great American Hope
February means Valentine's Day and Valentines mean love therefore this column is just brimming with the stuff.
My first shout-out: Johnny Cash.
I've been reading Robert Hilburn's excellent bio on the Man In Black, Johnny Cash – The…
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Ohio’s Parole Merry-go-Round
State-run parole and probation programs are designed to keep persons convicted of crimes – including a very large number of non-violent crimes – out of prison. But in Ohio, according to a recent Council of State Governments study, “Confined and…
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