Katrina and Maria, More Disaster Anniversaries and Lessons Unlearned

ACORN Community Organizing

Greenville        In New Zealand we were asked, “How is New Orleans?”  In California, whether Santa Rosa or Sonoma, the question arose, “How is New Orleans?”  Thirteen years have passed since Hurricane Katrina swept through the city, and the question is still important, “How is New Orleans?”  The answer:  better than it was, but not as …

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Forty Years and Counting

ACORN Citizen Wealth Community Organizations International Community Organizing Organizing Personal Writings Rebuild New Orleans

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 …

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