New Orleans Help comes from some special and unexpected places for rebuilding New Orleans. Meetings over the years with our friends in the Canadian labor movement produced a call and a connection through Carol Phillips, the Executive Assistant to President Buzz Hargrove, and then to Colin Heslop, the CAW Skilled Trades Director, that asked if …
Category: Community Organizing
On Your Shoes?
New Orleans Andy Young put his feet in his mouth for Wal-Mart whom he had been representing in their fake support organization. The former civil rights organizer, mayor of Atlanta, and UN representative, had agreed to help sell the company and it’s marginal employment and benefit practices to communities, especially urban communities, we have …
La Boca and Barracas
Buenos Aires Walking through the two first neighborhoods where ACORN Argentina is organizing was fascinating. At first there were the high rise apartment buildings near the bus stop. Then the fenced in park, so new that the trees were still staked and the gates still locked, because the officials had not “had the time” to …