New Orleans Reboot ACORN, hell yes! I almost didn’t care what the rest of the opinion piece by Jason Linkins in The New Republic might say, because the title alone was tailor made to make my day. As the classic movie line aptly says, he “had me from Hello!” My Google Alert for …
Category: ACORN
John J. Sweeney’s Celebratory and Complicated Legacy
May 6, 2022 Washington John Sweeny was the head of the Service Employees in 1984, when the United Labor Unions, affiliated with SEIU. I met him then. I last saw him in 2009 at a packed, standing room only gathering at Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall when he was given an honorary degree there, right …
The On-Going Fight Against Lead Poisoning
New Orleans Mi companera is on one lead-free listserv after another. A Community Voice, the former Louisiana ACORN, and an affiliate of ACORN International, has been a lead crusader for decades now. From time to time, they have the resources for major testing programs, and the results are always depressing in New Orleans …