New York City Showing the documentary, “The Organizer,” in Harlem, it was fun talking to old veterans, Jeff Elmer and Mariana Davenport, and hearing of others. Emma Graves-Fitzsimmons and I got a big laugh in the Q&A after the film when I acknowledged her as a daughter of organizers in the ACORN family after …
Month: March 2019
Twisting the Irish in “The Ferryman”
New York City By happen-chance I went with my family to see a well-reviewed Broadway play, “The Ferryman.” It’s not ordinarily something that I would do, and in fact I can’t really remember the last play I may have seen, but it was a while ago. Having recently been in Ireland though, I was …
Philly in the House!
Philadelphia The room had forty-seven chairs on the first floor of the John F. Kennedy Mental Health building where the Philadelphia Unemployment Project has offices on the eleventh floor. Craig Robbins, twenty-five-year ACORN veteran as a head organizer and lastly as deputy field director, now on the staff of PUP, had done most of …