Chicago I am participating in quite an exceptional event, almost unheard of in the organizing community in fact: a joint strategy session between two community organizing networks — PICO and ACORN — trying to struggle together to find new paths and successes in education organizing. About a dozen organizers from each organization are attending. …
Category: ACORN
Boyko Stops Foreclosures in Ohio
Chicago Justice Christopher A. Boyko in the federal court in Cleveland delivered a head shot to mortgage investors by dismissing 14 foreclosure cases brought in their behalf because they had failed to really prove that they owned the properties that they were trying to seize and sell.. Company after company that ACORN has been …
No Play Neighborhoods
New Orleans The Census Bureau released a study not too long ago called “A Child’s Day.” They claim there are marginal improvements for children. Let’s hope so, because some of the report was particularly depressing. Our children are becoming prisoners of their own homes in many neighborhoods — and I suspect these are overwhelmingly …