Strong Towns:  Investing in Old, Lower-Value Neighborhoods, not More Infrastructure

ACORN Community Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11022019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       On the sometimes lonely march to try to advance and rebuild low-and-moderate income communities, it’s always a welcome relief to stumble on fellow travelers moving on much the same pathway.  At least that’s how I felt preparing to interview Chuck Marohn for Wade’s World, …

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Georgia Voter Purge Begins Early, but Why Purges?

ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        We knew it was coming.  When the American Voters Project combined with ACORN International and Labor Neighbor Research and Action Project to create the Voter Purge Project one of our first conversations was about adding Georgia to the list of states we needed to …

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College Student GOTV Could be Key in Fight against Suppression

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/CN10312019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      The persistent political canard has been that, sure, you can register young people, but most of them are not going to vote.  The Trump turmoil and the urgency of climate change is overturning whatever conventional wisdom that might have been attached to that notion …

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