New York City: Wake up and it’s another day, voice or no voice, in the madness and mayhem of the city. In a cruel scheduling irony though I had committed to speaking to a class at Sarah Lawrence College and being interviewed on the train going up and back to Bronxville from Grand Central. This was …
Category: Community Organizing
Environmental Immigrants?
New Orleans: The Sierra Club is well known as the gray lady of the environmental movement – big, old, and staid with huge resources – some $80 million a year in expenditures – and a largely passive, tree hugging membership. Led by Executive Director Carl Pope for some years, more recently the Sierra Club has …
ACORN Dominican Council: Elections
Santo Domingo/New Orleans: Flying back from Santo Domingo to Miami and now onwards towards New Orleans and home allows one to reflect more on life on the other side of the looking glass. Yesterday for example we began our day with a visit to the main hospital in Santo Domingo accompanied by the head of …