New Orleans Years ago Jane Bagley Lehman was the first board chair of the Tides Foundation. Her untimely passing, her grace, her generosity, and our friendship led to the creation of the “JBL’s” a Tides award given almost annually over the last 17 years in the name of citizen advocacy and policy making. It has …
Category: ACORN
Liberal Learning
Santa Fe It is something less of a pleasure to see ACORN front and center in the current scandal de jure of the Bush Administration. Turns out that sometimes when it seems that “they” are really “out to get you,” that in fact they are really out to get you! In this case it now …
Helen Miller and Ida Scineaux
Santa Fe Back in the USA it takes some time learning how to sleep again and of course catching up with all of the changes around us. Keith Kelleher, head organizer of SEIU Local 880, one of the pillars of the ACORN family of organizations, sent me a note from Montreal, where the …