New Orleans Likely passed 600 houses on the clean-out program in New Orleans. We had some excitement though on Friday, when our field foreman, Rev. Brian Lewis, reported that two of the volunteers had asked if they could be married that afternoon on one of the job sites. She was from Seattle. He was from …
Category: Community Organizing
Walmartitis!
New Orleans The call came in during the middle of the week. Did we know that there would be 5000-6000 Wal-Mart store managers having their annual shebang in Kansas City at the Convention Center? We did not, but we do now. Turns out that they meet there every year, so we will have to put …
500+ and Counting on Home Clean-out!
New Orleans Today was another big day. More than 100 volunteers were part of the ACORN Services clean-up crews working in the 70117 zip code of the 9th Ward of New Orleans, just west of the Industrial Canal. Today’s full court press might mean 10-15 houses get done before the fall of the sun. …