Marble Falls Sometimes it feels funny to be back in Arkansas. I lived here from June 1970, when I was coming from a stint in Massachusetts with the National Welfare Rights Organization to found ACORN, and lived in Little Rock until 1978, when we moved the national office to New Orleans. I was …
Category: Arkansas
Johnnie Pugh
New Orleans Johnnie Pugh, a longtime member and leader of ACORN in Arkansas, passed away. Anyone who has seen the documentary, The Organizer, will remember her as a star talking about having joined in 1971 and working with Gloria Benson Wilson. Gloria was elected to the Little Rock city director seat, that Johnnie …
Union Leaders, Good Mayors, and AI Bots
Marble Falls Local 100 has conducted an annual leadership training workshop for stewards for more than 40 years, but this year’s session in Little Rock was the first in-person meeting since the pandemic. It was good to see old and new leaders getting to meet each other, often for the first time. Going …