New Orleans Professor Robert Fisher of the University of Connecticut in his invitation to researchers and scholars to come together this week (Tuesday and Wednesday) and look at the impacts of ACORN over 35 years intriguingly refers to the “second wind” of ACORN and its growth. In response a dozen odd scholars have rallied …
Category: Community Organizing
Deja vu under the Arches
St. Louis St. Louis is not a regular stop on my route. I had last been in town for the 2004 Gameliel Leadership Assembly and was now back with them again for the 2005 edition. Landing late in the night from San Francisco, I almost automatically went to the wrong hotel, and as I marched the …
Stealing in Broad Daylight
New Orleans One could become cynical, but in New Orleans this just all goes under the category of “bought lessons” and hard realities. Eleven weeks out from the hurricane as so little happens and the housing stock continues to sink into the now grey and lifeless ground with the rains soon to follow and worse to …