New Orleans Treme is not the only Louisiana based hit on HBO. The bigger attraction set in Shreveport and neighboring communities is True Blood of course. I would have thought that ACORN was a natural for Treme, but the more I watch it, the more I realize this is a soundtrack not …
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ACORN Canada Convention: Happy and They Know It!
Ottawa Once the members put on their t-shirts, grab their packets, and start struggling to find dorm rooms on campus, classrooms for workshops, and auditoriums for the plenary sessions with maps in one hand and agendas in the other, the smiles come out and I know it’s an ACORN convention. The weather was picture perfect, …
Forty-one Years of ACORN: Celebrating a Day in the Work
Ottawa Having founded ACORN in Little Rock, Arkansas forty-one years ago today, it is hard not to reflect on how fortunate I have been to be a part of ACORN in one form or another all of those years, first as Chief Organizer of ACORN in the United States for thirty-eight years and now adding …