Washington, DC: At the Gala Awards Banquet at the Washington Hilton, I sat with three tables of ACORN members including ACORN’s President Maude Hurd as Tamecka Pierce, Florida ACORN State President accepted the Campaign for America’s Future Paul Wellstone Citizen Leadership Award in behalf of ACORN’s victory in raising the minimum wage by $1.00 per …
Category: Community Organizing
The Kiss
New York: Walking through the New York ACORN office in Brooklyn organizers would look for an excuse to ask me if I had seen “the kiss.” An up and coming politician from Westchester elected with support from the Working Family Party, which we support in New York, also asked me about it. The kiss was the …
Water Wars Come to Mexico
Mexico City: It was a last minute invitation from fellow travelers in the water wars from Canada with the Polaris Institute who issued the call to meet with community based and indigenous groups from around Mexico meeting to look at the emerging issues of water privatization. There was no way to say no. Landing on …