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Connect with local and international organizers for a deep dive into the most effective strategies in community organizing today. From cutting-edge grassroots mobilization tactics to communication skills and electoral campaigning, the Organizers’ Forum is a unique space to share experiences, sharpen tools, and build collective power across borders.

This year, the Forum heads to Romania and Bulgaria, where participants will meet with local organizations and activists fighting for women’s rights, environmental justice, fair housing, and more. Join organizers from across the ACORN network and beyond for a powerful week of learning, solidarity, and action.

🛫 Spots are limited

Email wade@chieforganizer.org or rachel@chieforganizer.org to reserve your spot.to reserve your spot. Planning is underway, so stay tuned for updates!

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Looking Back: Highlights from the 2024 Organizers’ Forum in Taiwan

Last year, the Organizers’ Forum traveled to Taipei, Taiwan, meeting with some of the most inspiring grassroots groups in the region.

📌 New Bloom Magazine

Our visit to New Bloom offered a compelling glimpse into the intersection of media, activism, and community in Taiwan. Not just an online newspaper, New Bloom also serves as a vibrant social space for political and cultural discussion. We learned from founder Brian Hioe about the challenges of independent media and its vital role in shaping public discourse.

📌 Migrant Workers Organizing: TIWA & SPA

The Forum delegation also met with the Taiwan International Workers Association (TIWA) and the Serve the People Association (SPA) to better understand the struggles of Taiwan’s 800,000 migrant workers. These essential workers, especially in long-term care, often face exploitative broker contracts, high fees, and legal barriers to equality.

TIWA is leading campaigns to regulate these exploitative practices, while SPA provides direct support, shelter, and policy advocacy for migrant workers. Both groups are doing critical work to defend rights and restore dignity to those whose labor is too often invisible.

Read more about our Taiwan trip here:
👉 Migrant Workers in Taiwan: Critical but Oppressed

📌 Green Citizens Action Alliance & Taiwan Climate Action Network

We also met with Green Citizens’ Action Alliance (GCAA) and the Taiwan Climate Action Network to discuss pressing climate challenges in Taiwan — from the nuclear power debate to the intensifying effects of typhoons and earthquakes. These groups are leading efforts for environmental justice through grassroots advocacy and research-driven campaigns.

We left Taiwan inspired by these movements and deeply committed to continuing our international solidarity work.

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Why It Matters

The Organizers’ Forum is more than a trip — it is a global exchange of strategy, solidarity, and struggle. From Taiwan to Romania, our mission is to connect organizers, build relationships, and strengthen movements that fight for justice everywhere.

If you are an organizer ready to grow your skills, deepen your international perspective, and build long-term solidarity with movements around the world, this is your chance. Join us in Romania and be part of a powerful delegation committed to learning, sharing, and taking action together.

Email wade@chieforganizer.org or rachel@chieforganizer.org to reserve your spot.

ACORN’s 55th Anniversary Goes Global

On June 18th, ACORN affiliates around the world marked our 55th anniversary not with cake, but with coordinated actions across four continents to confront the corruption, displacement, and environmental destruction of the Adani Group.

The Adani Group, controlled by billionaire Gautam Adani, is currently evicting hundreds of thousands of people in Dharavi, Mumbai’s largest informal settlement, to make way for luxury towers and malls. Families are being relocated to one of the world’s most toxic landfills. This is just one example of a pattern that spans the globe: corporate greed, land grabs, environmental degradation, and political favoritism.

Across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Kenya, and France, ACORN members delivered demand letters, held rallies, and protested the institutions profiting from Adani’s abuses.

ACTION HIGHLIGHTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD:

• London, UK: ACORN members delivered symbolic eviction notices at the Science Museum, calling out its sponsorship by Adani Green Energy.
• Edinburgh, Scotland: Members delivered a letter to BlackRock, comparing Adani’s eviction scale to displacing the entire population of Edinburgh.
• Nairobi, Kenya: A community meeting explored how Adani is trying to enter local markets through airport development and trade deals.
• Hamilton, ON: Members marched to MP Aslam Rana’s new office, posting a demand letter on the door and rallying for global housing justice.
• Vancouver, BC: Members delivered a petition to MP Randeep Sarai’s office and secured a follow-up meeting.
• Calgary, AB: Members delivered a demand letter to MP Corey Hogan’s office urging action against Adani investments.
• Ottawa, ON: ACORN visited MP Mona Fortier’s office and flyered the community about Dharavi and Adani’s corporate abuses.
• London, ON: A demand letter was delivered to MP Arielle Kayabaga, calling for divestment from Canadian pension plans tied to Adani.
• Toronto, ON: Members protested outside BlackRock’s headquarters, demanding divestment from Adani enterprises.
• New Orleans, LA: A Community Voice protested at the Port Commission office, linking Adani’s evictions to local displacement struggles in Louisiana.
• Dallas, TX: Members protested at Adani North America’s supposed headquarters — a residential home listed in Texas filings — to expose the company’s lack of transparency.
• Little Rock, AR: Letters were delivered to both of Arkansas’s U.S. Senators urging continued investigation and no deals with Adani.
• Paris, France: Protesters gathered at a Synergy gas station to denounce the company’s ties to Adani Energy and the environmental damage caused by its oil extraction operations.

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IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO GET INVOLVED!

The fight isn’t over. You can still:

• ✍️ Sign our petition to the U.S. Attorney General calling for full prosecution of Adani under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• 📣 Share this campaign with your network
• 🚫 Demand institutions cut ties with Adani now

Global Day of Action Targets Adani’s Land Grab in Dharavi, Mumbai

ACORN International and Affiliates Around the World Stand in Solidarity with Residents Facing Mass Eviction

June 12, 2025 – On June 18, people across the globe will rise in coordinated action to demand justice for Dharavi residents and accountability from the Adani Group, as ACORN International marks its 55th anniversary by confronting one of the most egregious cases of corporate corruption,  land grabbing, and environmental injustice in the world today.

Dharavi, one of Asia’s largest informal settlements and home to up to one million people in Mumbai, India, is facing forced redevelopment under a project led by the Adani Group, the multinational corporation controlled by billionaire Gautam Adani, one of the world’s richest men. The plan threatens to displace hundreds of thousands of residents with little to no consultation or guaranteed right to return. Many are planned to be relocated to the Deonar landfill, one of Mumbai’s most toxic sites, instead of being housed safely within the community they have helped build.

This is not development. It is a scam disguised as progress. People will be pushed out of their homes to make way for luxury towers and shopping malls, while billionaire Adani and his political allies profit.

Adani holds an 80% stake in the Dharavi redevelopment and with the current ‘master plan’ has carved out half of Dharavi’s landmass for himself. The plan has moved forward with little transparency or democratic input from the community. Meanwhile, the Deonar landfill, the proposed relocation site for a potential 500,000 residents, contains over 18 million metric tons of legacy waste, emits over 6,000 kilograms of methane per hour, and leaks toxic chemicals posing massive health and environmental risks.

This pattern of corporate impunity extends far beyond Mumbai. Adani’s record is under scrutiny not only in India but globally. The U.S. Department of Justice recently indicted Adani Group for alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, including a reported $250 million bribery scheme involving Indian officials and misleading statements to American investors, where he is facing charges from the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). A separate incident involving U.S. sanctions violations by an Adani-linked oil shipping entity has further triggered investigations by the US Justice Department and fueled calls for accountability. Adani’s business practices have been described as “the largest con in corporate history”.

In response, ACORN International and its affiliates are calling on governments, institutions, and corporations to cut ties with Adani, refuse to support or legitimize displacement and environmental destruction, and urge the U.S. Department of Justice to aggressively pursue its indictment into Adani Group’s alleged corruption under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). This call to action is part of our growing international movement demanding accountability.

On June 18, protests, petitions, and digital actions will take place across Canada, the United States, France, Kenya, and the United Kingdom. Cities taking part include Toronto, London, Edinburgh, New Orleans, Little Rock, Dallas, Baltimore, and Paris. These actions will denounce Adani’s abuses and call for an end to mass evictions in Dharavi.

Together, we stand in solidarity with the people of Dharavi and all communities resisting exploitation. We encourage anyone ready to speak out against Adani to join their local affiliate branch in action and sign our petition.

ACORN International is a federated organization with 300,000 members of low and moderate income families and lower waged workers organized in more than fifteen countries around the world, working to empower people, communities, and workers for the last 55 years.

To learn more or to join an action, visit: 

Celebrating 55 Years of Organizing with a Global Stand Against Adani

Why Sign?

• Communities Displaced: Adani’s projects have displaced thousands, including residents of Dharavi in Mumbai, who are being pushed out to a landfill to make way for luxury development.
• Environmental Harm: His companies are major contributors to the climate crisis through coal expansion, destructive infrastructure, and deceptive greenwashing.
• Corruption & Fraud: Adani Group is under investigation for serious allegations including bribery, fraud, and sanctions violations.
• Institutional Complicity: Many institutions invest in or partner with Adani — they must divest now or be held accountable.
• New Deals in Progress: Governments and companies are still considering business with Adani. The message must be clear: Do not start.

WHO

Gautam Adani is one of the richest men in the world and the oligarch behind India’s most powerful corporate empire. His companies span fossil fuels, infrastructure, media, to defense and have grown through a pattern of land grabs, environmental destruction, and political favoritism.

Adani’s destructive empire is propped up by a global web of investors, partners, and silent beneficiaries. These include corporations investing in his companies, institutions accepting donations, and entities facilitating his expansion. Governments, pension funds, and infrastructure authorities must make a choice: Will they support an empire built on displacement, exploitation, and environmental destruction?

Grassroots groups across Canada, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom Have all decided to raise their voices. From Dallas and New Orleans to Paris, London, and beyond, communities are taking action to demand accountability and resist further expansion.

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