Mumbai The Municipal Corporation of Mumbai has an aggressive goal to eliminate all slums in the city befitting its world class ambitions. They are hard at it. One scheme (as they call such things here) we looked at pretty closely in the Mill lands area with Vinod Shetty, our lawyer, Reena Desai, ACORN’s campaign director …
Category: ACORN
The ACORN Home Land
Little Rock It is hard to remember the controversy from 30 years ago when ACORN relocated its national operations from Little Rock to New Orleans. There was a concern by the founding leaders and members that the place of ACORN’s history would be diluted or lost in the shift. Seeing the national board return to …
Guest Worker Debate
Little Rock The ACORN National Board has been on a traveling circuit holding meetings in newly opened offices for the last several years to welcome and orient new leaders into the organization, but bowing to the wishes of Ms. Johnnie Pugh, the beloved Arkansas delegate and former Arkansas ACORN State Chair and an elected member …