Loofah and the ACORN Farm

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      The half-acre ACORN Farm has been in production in the Lower 9thWard of New Orleans for the last seven years or so.  Initially part of the city’s Grow Green initiative to utilize land lots decimated by Hurricane Katrina, we have gradually moved from renter …

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Police Plus Shots Equal Feet on the Street

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock      About twenty Georgia State University School of Social Work students watched the film, The Organizer, in Atlanta recently.  I zoomed in for a questions-and-answers session after it finished.  The first question was straightforward:  how would I compare the work of ACORN with the Black Lives …

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Vote Tripling

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10222020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Little Rock      In recent months I have been on a weekly voting call focusing on stopping voter suppression and increasing turnout in the US election on November 3rd.  Some of the participants with voter registrations in battleground states complain from time to time about the daily …

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