Missoula Out here off-the-grid with my grown son, we pass for each other’s adult supervision. We still keep an eye over our shoulders though. All of a sudden he grabbed a broom, and he swept the Airstream yesterday with the comment that his mother “wouldn’t have been happy looking at these floors.” It rained in …
Category: ACORN
Doorknocking is Scaring People Around the World
Dallas I was teamed up with Maude Hurd, an ACORN leader from Boston and teaching my 4-year old daughter to door knock in 1988 at a stop along the route in Mitchellville, Arkansas during ACORN’s Caravan for Justice to increase voter participation when Rev. Jesse Jackson was running for President. We made up a little …
Ralph Nader’s Convergence, Billionaires, and Participation Nonprofits
Kiln Ralph Nader understood a huge amount about building self-sufficient operations. His original public interest projects were financed by the settlement he won from General Motors and his book, Unsafe at Any Speed. The Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs) established in numerous large publicly funded universities shrewdly created capacity for consumer advocacy by winning …