San Pedro Sula It was a coincidence that we were in Honduras almost exactly a year after the elite coup that toppled the populist, democratically elected President of Honduras and installed an illegitimate puppet government after fierce opposition and international condemnation of the process. The story is well known by now. [...]
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New Orleans I was a couple of minutes late and walked into a speech by long time New Orleans community leader Beulah Laboistrie’s remarks about her decades of leadership in ACORN and now A Community Voice, which has arisen from the ashes of the organization in Louisiana, so I was looking sidelong at the [...] Lima In a bold experiment at the ACORN International staff meeting we tried to schedule and link our far flung offices together via free Skype connections to be able to hear reports from India and Kenya and introduce staff and leaders to each other. As the expression goes in Spanish it [...] Nairobi It took more than an hour for the members to arrive for the official launch of ACORN Kenya in Korogocho, but once they were all in there were more than 200 and every time one of the speakers said, “ACORN!” the called response was “Mabadiliko Sasa!” meaning “Reform Now!” I fell in love with [...] |
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