Voting Early October 27, 2008 Newark Getting ready to board a plane to Mumbai (Bombay) for a week of meetings with ACORN International’s staff and allies there and in Delhi, I’ll then fly overnight back for Election Day. Everything being equal I will land in New Orleans at 930 AM and get my vote …
Category: Community Organizing
Illogic of the Right October 27, 2008 New Orleans For the life of me I can’t help trying to figure out how the right wing really thinks about the country and the world. It is one thing to simply say that they start from a conspiratorial slant, but that is hardly unique to …
Black and Brown Unity
Black and Brown Unity October 25, 2008 Gulfport The Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA) under the leadership of long-time labor organizer, Bill Chandler (disclosure: I first met Bill when we opened the ACORN office in Houston in 1976 and he was working for the Farm Workers in Texas and had his office down the …