New Orleans E-mail notices over night were more interesting than usual. Staff in India welcomed newcomers on a different time zone. In St. Louis we finally were getting some “pushback” traction in the Post-Dispatch on the voter suppression campaign being run against us. Stewart Acuff, AFL-CIO Organizing Director, sent me the final copy of …
Category: Community Organizing
What’s Not Happening in Registration?
New Orleans Following the millions of immigrants, particularly Latinos, this spring, one of the often repeated objectives seemed to be voter registration. There was talk of registering 1,000,000 new Latino voters by 2008. Having beaten that number overall in 2004, ACORN and its family of organizations, including Project Vote, know something about how hard that …
Missouri Mischief
New Orleans A lot of big whoops, many of them who seem to be Republican partisans to a fault, are really upset that there may be a higher state minimum wage in the state of Missouri. They seem to be willing to go to any ends in order to confuse and dissuade voters on one …