New Orleans It is heartbreaking to read everywhere about families looking for relatives and friends in northern Japan. An organizer in our office tells about her mother, a native of an area south of Tokyo, who is distraught trying to locate sisters and cousins who might have been working or travelling in the area. It …
Month: March 2011
If Not Japan, Then Nobody is Ready
New Orleans After Katrina a group of us who were community organizers with ACORN in New Orleans were given tickets to go to Japan to see what lessons had been learned from the Kobe earthquake a little more than 10 years before Katrina in 1995 and their recovery as well as precautions Tokyo had taken …
Building a Movement to Win the DREAM
New Orleans As part of Paladin Partners, Drummond Pike and I spent an invigorating and productive day meeting in Washington with Carlos Saavadra and Gaby Pacheco, two of the principle organizers behind the courageous and expectation-challenging push for the DREAM Act, which culminated in a near miss in Congress late in 2010. It is fair …