New Orleans Once again it seems we have been behind the 8-ball in the new trends in community organizing. It seems we at ACORN will never learn. When there’s a hard way or an easy way to do something, we seem to always pick the hard way. In New York City where many organizing …
Category: Community Organizing
Tennessee Williams Festival
Half-Moon Bay Let me share an experience out of the ordinary for me at least and that was being on a panel among the literary lions at the annual Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans. The panel was titled “American Problems, Southern Solutions” after the recently published Tony Dunbar edited volume to which several …
Recover With Organizing
New Orleans A report was issued by something called the Mercatus Center, which is based in Virginia on the campus of George Mason University. This outfit is doing a 5-year study of post-Katrina recovery efforts with a team of professors and researchers they have assembled. I suspect this is a study that starts with …