Montevideo With every day we come closer to the one-year anniversary of the devastation of New Orleans by Katrina. Every day we also become more deeply mired in the seemingly endless case study in frustration and hypocrisy that passes for professional “planning.” With the election for Mayor long over and gone, and the Canizaro-Urban Land …
Category: ACORN
Still Marching
Buenos Aires We heard the noise and all walked out on the balcony of one of the newest ACORN offices in the world in Buenos Aires, where Ercilia Sahores, ACORN’s Latin American Director, and three other organizers have spent the first month of ACORN Argentina laying the groundwork for our first community organizations in La …
The New Normal
New Orleans Frequently in the city these days people will talk about the “new normal” in New Orleans. It is recognition that the city is not going to be what it was in the past, and some things seem normal now that might have been unusual or bizarre before the storm. Here are three examples …