Buenos Aires As Katrina moved through the Gulf towards New Orleans, I was in a hotel room a mile above sea-level in Denver at a management council meeting that all seemed unreal as the storm hit the city. Now, I am almost 6000 miles south in another continent, and it is equally unreal. …
Month: August 2008
Communas
Buenos Aires Talking last night, we started discussing perhaps the largest effort of ACORN Argentina in Buenos Aires involving community representation on the communas. This is a little complicated, but essentially the communas are something on the order of large, neighborhood governing councils to allow direct citizen participation. There used to be …
Almost Winning
Buenos Aires The excitement for this week had been the march scheduled on Friday evening in Barracas, one of the older communities by the Rio de la Plata, where we have been organizing for the last several years. The protest was to try to force the building of a police station on the Barracas …