New Orleans My bad! I called it way wrong. After the New York legislative session where under the influence of a Democratic majority and progressive forces, major breakthroughs occurred, especially around expanding rent control access to cities around the state and closing landlord loopholes that had existed for decades, I interpreted the progress as having …
Category: ACORN
Random Insights into Membership Loyalty and Leadership Development
New Orleans Milan was interesting, but Geneva, Switzerland, was an unexpected surprise. What we had thought was simply a waystation, a place to repack before flying out of the airport there, chosen solely on the advice of ACORN’s French affiliate that it might offer a cheaper roundtrip flight than Paris, turned out to be …
Burkini Demonstrations
Geneva The membership of ACORN’s affiliate in France, the Alliance Citoyenne, is largely based in public housing in Grenoble and the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers now as it expands to build broader community-based groups in Lyon and Marseille. Typical of ACORN’s low-and-moderate income constituency, it is very diverse, though largely white, a significant percentage are …