New York: Walking through the New York ACORN office in Brooklyn organizers would look for an excuse to ask me if I had seen “the kiss.” An up and coming politician from Westchester elected with support from the Working Family Party, which we support in New York, also asked me about it. The kiss was the …
Category: ACORN
Sorting Out the Bolivarian Revolution
Caracas, Venezuela: Mardi Gras is a wild time in New Orleans. Having lived there for years, I am a hardened veteran. Our office on Elysian Fields is in the “party zone” a mile from the back end of the French Quarter. Partying is less the issue than parking. In short it’s a good time to …
Workshops at the World Social Forum
Porto Alegre: The World Social Forum is a hulky, ungainly, and thrilling piece of work. At one level it is a constant frustration where nothing is every where you hope to find it, yet everything is happening both everywhere at once and no where you can find. In 2003 in Porto Alegre the last …