Aguascaliente While here in the high desert of Aguascaliente, wondering in the aridity of winter, how hot it might feel in the summer, water still comes naturally to mind, and not just hot water, but all water. Receiving an invitation to fly to Banda Aceh to participate in a commemoration of the one-year anniversary of …
Category: Community Organizing
Katrina’s Wake Hits the Highlands
San Luis Potosi News of a bill passing at least part of the Congress seemed like we had a chance still for New Orleans to survive. The world of New Orleans work stretches down to the central Mexican highlands. A man on the street asks where I’m from and when New Orleans is the answer, …
Lessons of Katrina
Houston The annual Year End / Year Begin meeting of all of the ACORN family of organizations was dislocated, but the tribes had all gathered — the purple shirts of Local 880, the welcomed addition of the New York Working Families Party, all of the A-CLOC and Wal-Mart related organizers, and obviously everyone drawing a …