Baton Rouge Sitting in a Local 100 Leadership School in Baton Rouge at our hall I saw an email come across that looked like it was a message from Tom Newbery, a long time comrade, that I had lost touch with during a mess in Los Angeles. The bottom line of his message was all …
Month: July 2007
2/28s
Baton Rouge Countrywide and several other companies involved in mortgage market from primes to sub-primes announced at the end of the week that they were abandoning the highly controversial mortgage product the industry refers to as 2/28’s. We applauded the change but with only one-hand clapping. ACORN, along with everyone else who has taken …
Jakarta Elections
New Orleans Several years ago the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) delegation visited an Indonesia meeting with organizers from community based groups and unions throughout the country. These were times of change in the aftermath of authoritarian regimes, as citizens organized to express newly won rights and entitlements. We were particularly impressed with the Urban …