New Orleans Sometimes at ACORN’s annual legislative conferences in Washington, DC, I would be just in and out, but one time I overlapped a contentious session between Harvard’s Robert Putnam of Bowling Alone fame and ACORN leaders and members. The members were arguing that their experience with ACORN and their local community organizations in their …
Month: September 2015
Whistle Help in Myanmar and Beyond
New Orleans A couple of years ago in Oakland, I ran into Rhoda Linton, who I’ve known since the late 60’s when both of us were welfare rights organizers with the National Welfare Rights Organization, she in Brooklyn and me in Massachusetts. She had been working on a brief documentary on an interesting campaign she …
Social Leftists and Other Bogeymen Are Rampaging the Country
New Orleans There are a lot of things that conservatives are worried about these days, and it turns out the list is unimaginably long. It’s not just whether or not uppity abortion crazed family-hating women, same-sexers, Mexicans, African-Americans, and anyone with a tan or wearing an ACORN button might in some sneaky way take over …