New Orleans I was totally fried after being on the road for 27 out of 31 days in Vietnam, India, and Canada. I had shin splits and a pulled muscle on my right leg that made soft chairs and plane seats constantly painful. I had nothing that could be called a sleep schedule anymore. If …
Category: ACORN
Voter Registration Down, No Duh
New Orleans The popular Politico blog by Ben Smith on October 15th drew the obvious conclusion last week about the report that voter registration numbers are significantly down, especially in lower income districts, that allowing the right to take ACORN out of the equation and chilling virtually all large scale registration efforts will be a …
Soweto Kinch, Dharavi Rocks, and the Blue Frog
Mumbai One of the more unusual, and innovative, of the programs associated with ACORN Inte rnational and ACORN India’s organizing of the Dharavi Project with ragpickers in this huge mega-slum has been a partnership called “Dharavi Rocks” between our ACORN Foundation (India) and the Blue Frog jazz club in the central part of …