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Last year physician Carson Lam posted online asking if anyone else in the Bay Area wanted to meet up to talk about Andrew Yang’s Presidential campaign. Three people showed up. Carson, Greg, Victoria and Logan went star gazing on Bernal Heights Hill in San Francisco and the Yang Gang was born.  When looking up at… Read more

Citizens UK, the organisation I work for, adapts its organising method from the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) based in the US. The next stop on my travels was to spend a week in Los Angeles on the IAF’s annual National Training, spending time learning the craft of community organising from some of the most experienced… Read more

My basic income travels start in San Diego as I visit my friend Emily and I end up hanging out with her surfer friends for a weekend in the quirky neighbourhood of Ocean Beach – or OB as the locals call it. It happens that surfers – and their deservedness of welfare -were a key… Read more

I’m a community organiser working for Citizens UK. I’m based in North London, supporting our growing alliances of civic institutions in Haringey, Barnet and Enfield build power and win change in their communities. My introduction to community organising came as a student when I started a Living Wage Campaign at the University of Nottingham back… Read more