New Orleans Happy 4th of July! Rained in New Orleans off and on all day, and believe it or not, that’s a good thing. Daughter pulled out in one of the ACORN Mobile Action Centers (a dodge step van!) for Columbus with convention materials. Son is leaving on Wednesday morning in the 2nd team with …
Category: Community Organizing
In the Times
New Orleans Not everyday there’s a story in the New York Times not just mentioning ACORN, but in fact it was all about ACORN. Times national reporter, Erik Eckholm, visited Gary, Chicago, and New Orleans and filed a story about ACORN at 36 and growing. Pictures on the website were in color and were fantastic! …
Thoughts on Tajikistan
New Orleans In April we responded to a question from a non-profit in Washington, D.C. that was doing training under various contracts with the United States Agency for International Development (US-AID). They honestly and truly seemed to want someone from our very active and mass based tradition to join them in providing training to a …