New Orleans I was a couple of minutes late and walked into a speech by long time New Orleans community leader Beulah Laboistrie’s remarks about her decades of leadership in ACORN and now A Community Voice, which has arisen from the ashes of the organization in Louisiana, so I was looking sidelong at the …
Category: Community Organizations International
Telephone Monopoly Troubles: Peru & Canada
Toronto It is not often that my friends in Canada are willing to concede that there might be a service in the US that is superior to what exists in the great north, so I was paying careful attention to the torrent of complaints that spewed forth before the beer was even on the table …
Foreclosures in Tijuana
Lima The details were somewhat illusive but the issue was profound when we heard leaders from ACORN Mexico in Tijuana describing a more vicious twist to the foreclosure crisis that has been gripping their neighbors in the United States. The reports focused on more than 6000 houses in Tijuana that have seen a government assisted …