New Orleans In a close vote, the Louisiana legislature recently rejected an effort by the oil, gas, and chemical industry to allow companies in the state to self-report to the state environmental quality agency any violations of pollution standards from their operations. The other gift the industry was seeking was the ability to restrict …
Category: ACORN
Understanding the True Values of Fran Piven
New Orleans There was a full-page profile of sorts on Frances Fox Piven, now an 86-year old professor emeritus of political science of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The headline was, “The Unlikely Revival of a ‘60’s Radical” with the subhead of “Not All Liberals are Ready to March …
Debt Traps by Necessity
San Jose The Everett Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz specializes in technical solutions for social change organizations. ACORN has enjoyed a partnership with the program for the last three years that has seen several students work with our hawkers union in Bengaluru the first year, another team work with the ACORN …