NewOrleans Watching Steve Colbert on TV at the gym, I saw a complementary rerun interview with the head spokesperson for Americans Elect (www.americanselect.org). He described their petition effort to establish a 50-state ballot place for a slate of candidates in the 2012 Presidential election. His rap was that this internet facilitated process would be [...]
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Buenos Aires One of the flash points in the USA immigration reform debate continues to be over the demand from farmers for help in their fields from migrant agricultural workers. Recently they left the Republican (and Obama Administration) consensus in droves as US-farmer organizations and Congresspeople bridled at the fact that employers, i.e. [...] Buenos Aires Yes, I’m in Buenos Aires. The weather is overcast and cool, because it’s winter in the Southern Cone after all. I can see the impact of inflation everywhere. $3.50 for an expresso doble now, a special tourist visa for Americans and Canadians since 2009, remis from the airport now almost a third [...] Missoula Coming off the grid to read a long profile piece of James O’Keefe III in the New York Times is not anyone’s idea of good times in my book. Kind of amazing to see self-delusion flaunted so flatly. According to the article, Saul Alinksy, the great community organizer, is one of his influences, he [...] Maude Hurde leadin an action against Wells Fargo years ago New Orleans I may still be under a gag order on ACORN’s final settlement with Wells Fargo, but who knows at this point and who would care now. Wells Fargo was always about hard ball and hard bargaining, but when we moved after than [...] New Orleans Treme is not the only Louisiana based hit on HBO. The bigger attraction set in Shreveport and neighboring communities is True Blood of course. I would have thought that ACORN was a natural for Treme, but the more I watch it, the more I realize this is a soundtrack [...] Ottawa Once the members put on their t-shirts, grab their packets, and start struggling to find dorm rooms on campus, classrooms for workshops, and auditoriums for the plenary sessions with maps in one hand and agendas in the other, the smiles come out and I know it’s an ACORN convention. The weather was picture [...] Ottawa Having founded ACORN in Little Rock, Arkansas forty-one years ago today, it is hard not to reflect on how fortunate I have been to be a part of ACORN in one form or another all of those years, first as Chief Organizer of ACORN in the United States for thirty-eight years and now adding [...] |
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