New Orleans New Orleans ACORN won again late Friday after a grueling and seemingly interminable City Council meeting when the Council voted to extend the controversial “gutting deadline” which had been stuck on the Katrina Anniversary, August 29th. After a long public fight and some sharp elbows inside, ACORN got the Council to vote 7-0 …
Month: August 2006
O’Hare the Awwwwwful!
Chicago I love Chicago! The CTA train pushed me from the airport to the new offices on Jackson in downtown only blocks away from the blue line stop. I could use the cell most of the trip as we moved in a sure and steady way on my appointed rounds. A clear beautiful day …
CAW to the Rescue!
New Orleans Help comes from some special and unexpected places for rebuilding New Orleans. Meetings over the years with our friends in the Canadian labor movement produced a call and a connection through Carol Phillips, the Executive Assistant to President Buzz Hargrove, and then to Colin Heslop, the CAW Skilled Trades Director, that asked if …