New Orleans Yesterday was a big day for a small reason here on Elysian Fields at the ACORN office. Five months after the storm, finally two FEMA trailers ordered for our staff arrived. They were slightly different, but both were essentially big, white boxes on wheels. One had a couple of windows more than …
Category: Community Organizing
Families First?
San Francisco Organizing works behind the scenes, normally, so it was unsettling in one week to read a four-part series in the Los Angeles Times looking behind the curtains at the legacy of Cesar Chavez and another hard piece on the east coast looking at the problems of the King family in Atlanta. The King …
The Living Wage Movement
New Orleans The cover of the New York Times Magazine for Sunday, January 15th could not have been better for the living wage movement. There was a picture of Manuela Soto, an assistant hotel housekeeper employed in the hospitality industry of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The cover shot graphically looked at the difference a $2.00 …