San Francisco To open up the Tides Network (www.tides.org) board meetings Drummond Pike, the master of these ceremonies, had invited a guest, ACORN’s long time friend and ally from Los Angeles, Angelica Salas, the director of CHIRLA, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles (www.chirla.org ). Angelica and her team had been important in …
Category: Community Organizing
Two Good Hits in Mudsville!
San Francisco The papers all over the country today and yesterday were full of good news for Katrina survivors in the vast New Orleans diaspora. One federal judge ruled several days ago that insurance companies could not walk away from all claims for hurricane damage for victims without flood insurance by claiming that there was …
Behind from the Beginning
New Orleans There are few things that I read that have the ability to simply shock and startle, but a piece by Paul Tough in the Sunday New York Times called “What it Takes to Make a Student” was simply arresting. The argument in a nutshell is stark: lower income and minority children are disadvantaged virtually …