New Orleans The fight for living wages just does not stop when it comes to New Mexico and 2007 sees this state pushing ahead both locally and statewide. Santa Fe is of course well known as one of the first cities to pass a citywide increase in the minimum wages. ACORN led a fight through hell …
Category: Community Organizing
Richard Ford’s Delery Street Welcome
Buenos Aires Even 5000 miles away one could sense the excitement from all the reports of the celebration on Delery Street of the completion of the first two houses to be built in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans since the storm. It was a three-ring circus of ACORN members, scads of press, the …
We Could Win In Kibera
Washington I know you are about sick of hearing about Africa, so with this we will go on about our business, but I have to share that the more I think about it, the more I feel certain that “we could win” in Kibera. By that I mean that a community organization built with a …