Hartford I arrived as Peter Drier from Occidental College finished his paper and Frances Fox Piven from GUNY presented her views on the tensions between protest and electoral politics. The fur was flying in the genteel manner of the academy. It was a wonderful experience to be a “fly on the wall,” as serious thinkers worried …
Category: ACORN
Second Wind Webcast
New Orleans Professor Robert Fisher of the University of Connecticut in his invitation to researchers and scholars to come together this week (Tuesday and Wednesday) and look at the impacts of ACORN over 35 years intriguingly refers to the “second wind” of ACORN and its growth. In response a dozen odd scholars have rallied …
Deja vu under the Arches
St. Louis St. Louis is not a regular stop on my route. I had last been in town for the 2004 Gameliel Leadership Assembly and was now back with them again for the 2005 edition. Landing late in the night from San Francisco, I almost automatically went to the wrong hotel, and as I marched the …