New Orleans We are in the thick of the forty days of week by week protests called to take place around the country by the Poor Peoples’ Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival. After huge pre-campaign publicity that included a lengthy profile of the campaign’s leader, North Carolina’s Rev. William Barber, in The New Yorker …
Category: ACORN
The Ironies of Vancouver: The Post-Gentrified City
Vancouver Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada may be a case study of the post-gentrified city. Average housing prices have dropped all the way down to $1.4 million per house. The Vancouver Sun reported that a Habitat for Humanity house had sold for $330,000. ACORN Canada’s office and all of our groups are in the working-class …
Was Roseanne in the Wilderness Too Long?
New Orleans It is beyond dispute that Roseanne Barr has gone off the deep end with a string of racist and anti-Semitic tweets along with a tight embrace of a startling array of conspiracy theories and conspiracy promoters. Did Trump and Twitter finally enable us to see the real Roseanne that has been lurking at …