{"id":6660,"date":"2021-05-18T11:16:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/organizer-bc-acorn\/"},"modified":"2021-05-18T11:16:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:16:48","slug":"organizer-bc-acorn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/acorncanada.org\/organizer-bc-acorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizer \u2013 BC ACORN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted May 18, 2021<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\tACORN organizers build power for working class people!<\/div>\n
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\n\tHow?<\/div>\n
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\n\tThey go door-to-door, block-to-block, city-to-city, listening to community residents\u2019 concerns, and connecting what they want to see changed to effective mass-based action. Organizing protests, developing campaigns, listening, and working closely with our membership.<\/div>\n
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\n\tOf course, COVID-19 has changed this a bit<\/strong><\/em><\/u>.  We do more phone calls now to our extensive lists, have developed digital strategies to build those lists, and are doing more street canvassing and petitioning in the neighbourhoods we are organizing in. <\/div>\n
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\n\tNo experience required<\/strong><\/em><\/u>, BUT applicants must be interested in fighting for economic and social justice in Canada and be able to explain that in a quick cover letter.  Do not apply without a cover letter<\/strong><\/em><\/u>. <\/div>\n
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\n\tWhat is ACORN?<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
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\n\tWe are a tenants\u2019 union. We are a disability action union.  We are a worker\u2019s union. We are a consumer’s union. We are whatever our members are.  Our members pay dues so that the organization can be sustainable and not dependent on outside funding from labour, government, or foundations.  Each dues member has a vote, and only members speak for the organization.  Our members get elected board of directors and have the authority to set the policy and determine the tactics of the union.<\/div>\n
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\n\tACORN is a multi-issue, mass based union of low-to-moderate income people.  The purpose of the union is to give low-to-moderate income people power so that they have the ability to have their voices effectively heard at the highest levels in the country. With chapters across the region, province, and across the country, ACORN is able to be both a local-based union winning local campaigns, as well as a large organization combining forces to fight national corporations and governments that are at the root of most of our problems.<\/div>\n
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\n\tJob description:<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n
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\n\tThe job of an ACORN organizer is to build formal groups of working class people so they can disrupt and change the systems that negatively impact their community. <\/div>\n
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\n\tThe on the job training provided allows someone to learn all elements of running an organization, as well as fundamentals on how to be a community organizer. This includes effective outreach, strategic research,  campaign planning, communications, organizing events and actions, getting press to cover our actions and campaigns, and both internal and external fundraising.  <\/div>\n
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\n\tThe successful applicant will be joining an exciting staff team at the BC ACORN office, and working with organizers across Canada, as well as the USA, France, and the UK.  <\/div>\n
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\n\tThe current priorities laid out by ACORN\u2019s leadership are:<\/div>\n
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\n\t– Housing Campaigns:  <\/div>\n
\n\t– Municipal Stand Up for Housing (stop displacement and healthy homes).  <\/div>\n
\n\t– Provincial Vacancy Control Campaign<\/div>\n
\n\t– Raise the Rates <\/div>\n
\n\t– Permanent extension of the $300 per month COVID emergency benefit<\/div>\n
\n\t– Internet for All<\/div>\n
\n\t– Force Shaw Cable to provide $10 High Speed Internet for low income people <\/div>\n
\n\t– This year our campaign forced Telus to provide $10 internet to all people on disability and social assistance in Alberta and BC. <\/div>\n
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\n\tACORN has been central to winning groundbreaking tenant relocation policies in Burnaby and New Westminster that effectively stop the mass renovictions and demovictions.  The organizers job will be to help our leadership expand on these successes. <\/div>\n
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\n\tResponsibilities and Duties<\/strong><\/u><\/div>\n