Sausalito Helene O’Brien, ACORN’s National Field Director, and her team flipped the training program in a different direction for the mid-level ACORN organizers this year. Some of the features stayed the same, but the focus on the individual organizer and her individual contribution changed dramatically thanks to off-hand story we had heard from the training …
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Training on Point Bonita
Sausalito Every year ACORN gathers several sets of its newer organizers into a mid-level and an advanced training session somewhere in the country. In recent years we have met in and around Los Angeles. This year we met at a YMCA on the Marin Headlands across from San Francisco and by climbing a hill one …
Human Levee
New Orleans ACORN leader, Joe Sherman, has been a rock in the rebuilding of the upper Carrollton neighborhood in uptown New Orleans. Flooding from the 17th Street Canal inundated the area along with the Lakeview neighborhood, Hollygrove, and many others on the western side of the city. Many repairs have been made on the …