New Orleans US-Attorney General Eric Holder was in New Orleans yesterday to announce a $4.5 billion settlement with British Petroleum on criminal charges. It isn’t easy in this country to convict corporations of criminality, all evidence to the contrary, so having them plead out to their obvious culpability in the environmental and human tragedy caused …
Category: ACORN International
Hurricane Sandy Rapid Response from Occupy and Others
New Orleans In The Battle for the Ninth Ward: ACORN, The Rebuilding of New Orleans, and the Lessons of Disaster, published last year, I had added the Lessons appendix as more and more community-based organizations sought to meet the challenges of the unexpected natural disasters that are cropping up all around us, whether in the …
Pushing up the Provincial Payments for Disability Recipients
Vancouver What a treat spending time with the ACORN Canada staff in the Vancouver area in our New Westminster office! The organizers in the morning and the leaders in the evening wanted to brainstorm about current campaigns they were conducting to great effect. Roll up the sleeves and let’s get to work! Over the weekend …