Washington, DC: Every year ACORN leaders come from far and wide to Washington, DC for the annual ACORN Legislative and Political Conference. This year more than 150 ACORN members came for the full week and another 800 members came to participate in actions. The timing was fortuitous. The ACORN delegation happened to be in town …
Month: March 2005
Barbara Rivera of Springfield’s North End
New Orleans: Almost a month ago, an email surprised me in the way that one forgets can happen. One becomes so inured to spam and the unknown knocking at one’s mail box, that you forget that the other side of having a portal in cyberspace is that you can also be found by those you have …
Rebellious Lawyers?
New Haven: There are some simple rules in supporting a community of community and labor organizers and one of them in my book is to be accessible to their efforts to continue to define and expand their understanding of their work and experience as organizers. So it was easy when a request from a former …