Pearl River Every year, rain or shine, sleet or snow, our ACORN family of organizations for the last almost fifty years has assembled at the beginning of a new year. For almost the last forty years we have met in the New Orleans area for what we call a Year End / Year Beginning …
Category: Community Organizations International
Loose Ends at Year End
Marble Falls The end of every year always finds me with contradictory feelings, and I don’t think that’s something that just happens to me. On one hand, I’m ready for a new year. There’s excitement over new projects, a clean slate, a quick restart after the slow walk of the last year’s passing. On the other hand, there are …
Sorting Out ACORN and Labor
Bergerie de Villareaux We dedicated an afternoon of workshops and full plenary sessions in the meeting of ACORN’s global organizing staff to explicating more fully for everyone the variety and depth of our efforts and partnerships in organizing informal and service workers. Certainly, this is the heart of our organizing and support for the ACORN …