New Orleans No questions in my mind. We need to be long gone from Afghanistan. Also, no questions in my mind that the scenes at the airport and the chaos of the evacuation are heart rending. I hold my breath that for all of the real and crocodile tears being shed in …
Category: ACORN International
Street Vendors and the Struggle for the Streets
New Orleans Some years ago, when I could still get a visa to India, I was standing on a corner in Bengaluru with Suresh Kasidan, our head organizer in that area, talking to more than a dozen of our members. Their wares were laid out on the sidewalks around us and they gathered to …
The Tragic Results of Limited Governmental Capacity
July 27, 2021 New Orleans As the clock ticks to the final days of the national eviction moratorium and the beginning of what many predict will be the eviction tsunami, this housing crisis joins the long line of other crises we have experienced, including almost everything with the pandemic, as case studies in …


