Lisbon Some nuggets being mined from a recent report by the Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trust point about disturbing trends, but are consistent with arguments that the ACORN Financial Justice Center has been making about the problems in predatory practice and subprime financing. For African-American families the surveys seem to indicate …
Month: December 2007
George Wiley Award
New Orleans I was invited to the lunch held by the ACORN Caucus of Color on the final day of the Year End / Year Begin Meeting. Having arrived on time, I sat at the back table. As the organizers arrived there were a lot of double takes as they saw me there. When …
A Visit with Tom Matzzie
New Orleans Tom Matzzie most recently was campaign director for MoveOn.org, but we first met him when he was building the internet campaigns for the AFL-CIO some years ago. In between he did a turn with the DNC. He’s a professional on the cutting edge of large scale Democratic political mobilizations and a strategist for …