New Orleans ACORN has maintained an office and an active organization in St. Louis for 30 years now. Members there can mark great milestones including winning living wage elections both in the city and statewide (this year!) even having lost statewide a dozen years earlier. We have fought hospital closings, won relief on the sales …
Author: wade
All Show, No Substance
New Orleans The planning process as a charade continues to be played out in the wake of the drama of New Orleans. Yesterday, a reported $2.4 Million contract with AmericaSpeaks, veterans of a similar show-and-tells in the wake of 9/11 in New York, yield a reported crowd of perhaps 2400 stretched from the Convention Center in …
No Family Values: Immigrants Catch-22
San Francisco To open up the Tides Network (www.tides.org) board meetings Drummond Pike, the master of these ceremonies, had invited a guest, ACORN’s long time friend and ally from Los Angeles, Angelica Salas, the director of CHIRLA, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles (www.chirla.org ). Angelica and her team had been important in …