New Orleans I’ve know Peter Edelman since my days as an organizer for the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) at the end of the 1960’s. He was a policy centered advocate for many of our positions and gave our organizing some credibility when we needed it. My respect grew for him when he resigned as a …
Category: Community Organizing
DREAM Come True?
New Orleans By far the best news from the USA while I was travelling in India, was (finally!) the executive order by President Obama to break through the quarrelsome, partisan logjams for immigrants and provide some relief for the young people trapped by circumstance and parental decisions in the country illegally, but trying to build a …
Video Series: Lessons From ACORN
The videos below are from Wade’s appearance at the ‘Lessons from ACORN’ panel organized by Oregon State Professor Marisa Chappell at the national conference of the Organization of American Historians in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.