New York On a plane again after being mostly in New Orleans for two weeks, so I am again looking at the callow scowls of men and women speedily sleep walking through airport corridors as they rush on to these modern buses with wings trying to get from here to there. Brings me to notes …
Category: ACORN
Changing Habitat
New Orleans One of the “laws” of organizing I have often repeated to new organizers, frequently to blank stares, is that in organizing, “the beginnings prejudice the ends.” In English that is supposed to mean that the organizational structure and form often predetermine function. In simpler terms it is very, very hard to ever …
2/28s
Baton Rouge Countrywide and several other companies involved in mortgage market from primes to sub-primes announced at the end of the week that they were abandoning the highly controversial mortgage product the industry refers to as 2/28’s. We applauded the change but with only one-hand clapping. ACORN, along with everyone else who has taken …