New Orleans Ten organizations from the US and Canada in our family of community organizations, labor unions, media operations, and social enterprises came together as we do every year in a Year End / Year Begin Meeting to evaluate the work of the past year and plan for the current year. Beside the people meeting …
Category: ACORN
Attacks on Fair Housing and Affordable Housing Demands
New Orleans Talking on “Wade’s World” on KABF with George Washington University sociology professor and frequent author, Gregory Squires, about his recent piece in Social Policy on the impact of the Occupy movement, he underlined his concern that the “disparate impact” theory is under review in the term of the US Supreme Court and the …
An ACORN Memorial Orchard on the ACORN Farm
New Orleans Lady Bird Johnson gets a lot of credit for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove filled with a variety of trees along the Potomac River in Washington, D. C. There’s the AIDS Grove, a memorial to more than 1000 in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. More than a thousand redwood forest groves …