Sofia New Orleans to Newark, Newark to Munich, Munich to Sofia, and I was there on a gray, chilly, but snowless day dressed dutifully as if for a short hop to the Arctic. Our delegation assembled and jumped on the Metro at the airport station for a trip downtown, but Lyuba Batembergska and I jumped …
Category: ACORN
Job Training for Workers in the Gig Economy Era
New Orleans An interesting question came from the audience after watching “The Organizer” in Santa Fe. A gentleman asked what ACORN was doing and what was our thinking about job training programs these days. I basically answered that federal monies were being cutback in job training, but for the most part there seemed to be …
Fighting Back the Fear of Voter Registration
Santa Fe After watching the “The Organizer” and hearing questions at the Santa Fe Film Festival, several of us were having lunch, and invariably as these things go, we were following up on the follow up questions, most interestingly about the need for a return to robust voter registration efforts along the line hallmarked by …