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 …
Category: ACORN
The Bobbettes
New Orleans A great piece from the Los Angeles Times ran on their wire today with a story and picture of D. Taylor, the accomplished, veteran leader and organizer of the great 60,000 member strong Culinary Workers Union Local 226 of Las Vegas, and the role the union is playing as “king maker” in …
ACORN Glen
Houston I wanted to see the first six houses completed in the ACORN Glen development in the North Forest section of Houston, so Orell Fitzsimmons, the field director of SEIU Local 100, whisked me out for a look. We were wildly impressed! These were some serious houses built at two stories on a nice-sized lot …