New Orleans Donna Brazile is good people. Her aunt, Ethel Henderson, was Local 100’s Chief Steward in the Jefferson Parish School System before she retired. She’s been to a mess of leadership trainings and even some ACORN conventions. She’s not strictly a New Orleans girl, because her people mainly stayed in Kenner in Jefferson Parish, …
Month: February 2006
Discrimination on Craigslist
New Orleans Craigslist is an interesting story. A guy — Craig — in San Francisco develops this free thing there and then in a couple of other cities and now in mess of places where people can post up information for jobs, apartments, trades, and just about anything. It’s free. There’s no length. It’s unedited. …
Community Centres?
Toronto Judy Duncan, the head organizer of ACORN Canada, had scheduled the planning meeting for this year in the Roger Thornton Community Centre in the “program room” on the 2nd floor. Getting in from the airport a couple minutes early I stumbled into the “auditorium,” which was a large open room without chairs where a …