Bristol After 7 hours with our first organizing committee introduction with leadership and organizer training workshop at the Easton Community Centre in Bristol, it’s fair to say that we’re on our way and off to a great start. People were both serious and excited, and hunkered down to the tasks before them with another meeting …
Category: ACORN International
Why Deny the Poor Access to Telephone Service and the Internet?
Ocean Springs We can say with confidence and without fear of correction that the coming year will see yet more full scale battles in the war against the poor. Anyone can make that list. Certainly it starts with the headliners right now as extended unemployment benefits are being terminated, food stamps are still on the chopping …
The Biggest International Philanthropists are Still Immigrant Families
New Orleans We are at the time of year when a lot of people try to unleash their purse strings or get right for the taxman and make some donations here and there to what NFL and Hollywood agents call “their favorite charities.” There are special sections in the big newspapers suggesting that a whole …