Washington DC Typical of the Katrina experience, no one came to the 400 ACORN members in DC, the members went everywhere to find them. Organizers should make a note: it takes a long, long time to get 400 members through security metal detectors entering Congressional office buildings. Luckily, the weather was cold, but clear, and …
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People of the Storm
New Orleans I dropped off my first passengers at 5:45 AM. Members were already on the porch on a coldish morning for New Orleans, waiting for the buses to show up and the ride to begin. At 7:45 when I came back there were two buses packed the gills and another dozen people waiting for …
Love in the Ruins
New Orleans Likely passed 600 houses on the clean-out program in New Orleans. We had some excitement though on Friday, when our field foreman, Rev. Brian Lewis, reported that two of the volunteers had asked if they could be married that afternoon on one of the job sites. She was from Seattle. He was from …