New Orleans Several years ago the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) delegation visited an Indonesia meeting with organizers from community based groups and unions throughout the country. These were times of change in the aftermath of authoritarian regimes, as citizens organized to express newly won rights and entitlements. We were particularly impressed with the Urban …
Category: ACORN
St. Claude Court
New Orleans It was a happy day for Cleveland Turner and his family as they finally got ready to move back home to St. Claude Court on the river side of St. Claude Avenue in the lower 9th Ward. It had been a job, but a unique partnership of ACORN, the United Auto Workers …
Edwards on Delery Street
New Orleans Senator John Edwards began his “Road to One America” tour with the first stop in New Orleans in the lower 9th Ward. Not surprisingly, his campaign reached out to ACORN, having played a lead role in the fight to save the lower 9th, so that ACORN could point the way. A picture on …