http://www.percolating.org "To become lively or active. To spread slowly or gradually." Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:39:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This question has been spinning around my various worlds more directly for some time now. One of the board members of the Carold Institute asked it of me, when I was doing a presentation on my work to them in July (he wanted to make sure my true voice was ... http://www.percolating.org/2009/11/22/how-did-i-get-here/ I was invited to the Canadian Social Forum 2009, hosted by the Canadian Council on Social Development -- it took place in May in Calgary. Pam Shime, the founding director of the Global Advocacy and Leadership Initiative and I spent some time getting to know each other via Skype as ... http://www.percolating.org/2009/06/07/crossing-roads/ The second national conference on housing and homelessness: "Growing Home: Housing and Homelessness in Canada" took place in mid-February at the University of Calgary. I didn't manage to get to all of the conference -- the sun dogs took a large bite out of my hamstring when I was in ... http://www.percolating.org/2009/03/23/homelessness-from-the-ground-up/ The CBC is a warm welcomer in smaller communities. I was invited to come and talk about PovNet and the event to be held at the local library for the local afternoon show. After I'd adjusted my mike so I could actually see her through the glass, the host started ... http://www.percolating.org/2009/02/16/sun-dogs-watching/ Two poems surfaced over the past few weeks that relate to the particular kind of percolating being explored here. One is from anti-poverty activist, SD, who read it at our forum the other week, with apologies to William Shakespeare: Who is PovNet? What is she? That all these friends commend her A ... http://www.percolating.org/2008/12/11/poetry-to-ponder-over-the-holidays/ Taking advantage of a Legal Services Society training forum in Vancouver, and with a special grant from the Law Foundation of BC, anti-poverty advocates who were in town from around British Columbia converged last week at a forum/dinner to talk about PovNet: past, present and future. We had posters on the ... http://www.percolating.org/2008/11/26/hope-is-not-a-feeling-but-a-discipline/ I spent two days last week at a conference at the University of Winnipeg called "Two Faces of Poverty: Making the Law Work for Indigenous Peoples and Women". The conference was based on a report called "Making the Law Work for Everyone" --described as a "framework for legal ... http://www.percolating.org/2008/11/10/how-many-faces-of-poverty/ Public legal education was how I started in the anti-poverty community where I have been working for many years, and so I am always interested in seeing how it has grown as a resource for "turning straw into gold" (as I have always described making legal issues accessible to people ... http://www.percolating.org/2008/10/21/learn-grow-connect-practicing-community-legal-education-in-a-diverse-ontario/