New Orleans I have shared the saga of our neighborhood library and its struggling efforts to comeback with help from many friends. Faithful readers will remember we (me and my son) tried to help out by going over on odd weekends and trying to mow the grass, but this plan, which started out so well, …
Category: Community Organizing
The Mark of an Institution
New Orleans ACORN has maintained an office and an active organization in St. Louis for 30 years now. Members there can mark great milestones including winning living wage elections both in the city and statewide (this year!) even having lost statewide a dozen years earlier. We have fought hospital closings, won relief on the sales …
All Show, No Substance
New Orleans The planning process as a charade continues to be played out in the wake of the drama of New Orleans. Yesterday, a reported $2.4 Million contract with AmericaSpeaks, veterans of a similar show-and-tells in the wake of 9/11 in New York, yield a reported crowd of perhaps 2400 stretched from the Convention Center in …