Santa Fe: An e-mail trail started with Jim Gollin from the Rain Forest Action Network and moved from a friend to a friend to a friend and an invitation to come visit with activists forming a coalition with serious questions about a Wal-Mart proposal to locate a nearly 150,000 square feet Supercenter in the City of …
Author: wade
Government Speech?
Rapid City, South Dakota: Barbara Bowen and I sitting in on a semi-annual meeting of the staff and leaders of the Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) being held at the Historic Alex Johnson Hotel in Rapid City, South Dakota. I had not been in Rapid for at least 25 years. The beautiful park along the …
Tamecka’s Time
Washington, DC: At the Gala Awards Banquet at the Washington Hilton, I sat with three tables of ACORN members including ACORN’s President Maude Hurd as Tamecka Pierce, Florida ACORN State President accepted the Campaign for America’s Future Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award in behalf of ACORN’s victory in raising the minimum wage by $1.00 per …