August 22, 2008 Buenos Aires Nothing starts early in Buenos Aries, so we went out at 9 PM to bar in Belgrano for a fundraiser for ACORN Argentina, and one of its projects, Club ACORN, which is an after school program for children in the Boca neighborhood near the Rio de la Plata. The event was targeted …
Month: August 2008
Andrea Kydd
Buenos Aires Andrea and I go way back — more than 40 years back. She was working to direct BWAC, the Brooklyn Welfare Action Center, with Rhoda Linton, and I was head organizer of the Massachusetts Welfare Rights Organization. Somehow thanks to the marvelous “people skills” of the founding organizer of MWRO, my long time …
Extreme Inflation
Buenos Aires Last night there were nothing but smiles as people crowded past on the sidewalks with televisions blaring from the cafes. Argentina had solidly beaten Brazil in soccer at the Olympics in Beijing and would now be in the gold medal game against Nigeria at the end of the week. To put a …