Washington, D.C.: Nothing like being in the capitol of the United States a week after the Presidential election. In many of the meetings I attended, people seemed to be in some kind of sleep walking trance combined with post traumatic stress syndrome. They were also drowning in colors: red this, blue that; red state people, blue …
Category: Community Organizing
Winning Big in Florida on Minimum Wage!
Miami: I was in Florida for election night for a lot of reasons – more than 300,000 reasons, perhaps more than 500,000 reasons, and many believe 700,000 very good reasons – and none of them had to do with George W. Bush or John Kerry. I wanted to be with ACORN leaders, members, and hundreds and …
To the Wire
New Orleans: At this point in the quadrennial electoral wars we are all searching tea leaves in some real earnest for any sign. The polls are a mishmash of one or the other, if not knotted in a deadlocked tie. The other night coming back to town I stopped by and talked to my folks for …