New Orleans When it comes to creating some form of internet equity so that lower income families have access to the internet and can overcome the digital divide, everyone “gets” it, but no one wants to do what it takes to make it happen. President Obama on his way to meet the Chinese Premier …
Category: Canada
The Amazing Peace of the Copan Ruins
San Pedro Sula We had finished five days of non-stop meetings and waved goodbye to the organizers from ACORN Canada and took a chance of a field trip to see the Copan ruins some three hours away from the city. I had wanted to go since reading a book by John Stephens 40 years ago …
Stiffing Tenants as a Landlord Business Model
New Orleans Active ACORN campaigns in Canada, Scotland, and Italy focusing on tenant rights and landlord abuses, found me reading in detail a rare report in the New Orleans Times-Picayune about tenant rights, or really the lack of them, in Louisiana and most other states in the USA. The Uniform Landlord and Tenant Act in …