Minimum Wage Pushing the Vote

ACORN Labor Organizing

New Orleans                  At the board meeting of the Organizers’ Forum, which returned to New Orleans after a year’s hiatus because of the storm, we were looking at the 2006 elections and their meaning and what might be unfolding over the coming several years.  The facts, figures and insights were flying furiously! Daniel Gotoff, the senior researcher, …

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Small World?

Community Organizing Personal Writings

New Orleans                      Kenneth Wade, CEO of NeighborWorks, the Congressionally funded housing support program, had called out of the blue and invited me to breakfast to talk about ways that we could work together.  When we said down, Kenneth said that before we started he wanted to mention that there were a couple of things that …

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