Colonia, Uruguay From the point I landed the ACORN Argentina organizers have been briefing me on the exciting developments with the big multi-national retail supermarket chains, Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Seems at mid-week their union surprisingly led a large march of the workers from the stores into the city of Buenos Aires to protest the fact …
Category: ACORN
Education Puzzle
New Orleans ACORN can count many victories in education battles around the country. Some of our offices, like New York and Chicago, have literally pioneering accomplishments that sustain us all. Unfortunately, as a membership organization we can not avoid the reality that we are losing the war, even as we are winning some key battles. …
Appreciation
New Orleans The Iraq debacle proves to most of us every day the tragedy that accompanies a loss of irony and perspective. We go on a mission of mayhem and somehow expect to be greeted with open arms and parades, then after turning everything topsy turvey in the chaos, we are surprised that the …