New Orleans Talking about “planning” in New Orleans after the storm has become an oxymoron. We are now 13 1/2 months after the storm and there is still nothing that anyone would concede is a plan for rebuilding the city that has everyone’s agreement. Mayor Nagin’s Cannizaro committee in the beginning turned the job of …
Month: October 2006
Wal-Mart Workers Hit the Street
Tampa Meeting the staff of the Wal-Mart Organizing Project in Tampa, we shifted through the reports and press calls from reporters expressing surprise that more than 100 Wal-Mart workers in Hialeah Gardens outside Miami had hit the streets to protest hour’s cutbacks. Rick Smith, the organizing director, handled a call from the Bureau of National …
Urban In-fill
Nashville We met my old friend and frequent co-conspirator, Joel Solomon, at the Frothy Monkey (how about that for a name!) a couple of blocks from his infrequent office in his old hometown of Nashville. Brian Kettenring, ACORN’s Southern Regional Director was with me, and our mission was to get sage advice from Joel that …