New Orleans June 18, 1970 is on ACORN Canada and ACORN International calendars everywhere as Founder’s Day if you will. The day I drove into Little Rock from Boston via New Orleans to begin organizing ACORN. When you work every day to build something, one day follows another and each day now adds up to …
Category: ACORN International
Affordable Housing Push-out Problems in Vancouver, New York, and London
Bristol Reading the news is one thing but watching the steady stream of young people and many not so young at the Rock & Bowl hostel in central Bristol where we have been staying for the last several days underscores the affordable housing push-out. New residents with jobs of all kinds are paying 10-15 pounds per day …
Skyping Reports and Global Organizing Debates
Bristol After discussions of progress with the Remittance Justice Campaign and the Digital Access Opportunity Campaign in a number of countries, we hunkered down with some excitement to hear the reports on Skype from India, Kenya, and our Latin America offices. Many of the reports had been sent in writing to great comments. Applause greeted …