Nashville We met my old friend and frequent co-conspirator, Joel Solomon, at the Frothy Monkey (how about that for a name!) a couple of blocks from his infrequent office in his old hometown of Nashville. Brian Kettenring, ACORN’s Southern Regional Director was with me, and our mission was to get sage advice from Joel that …
Category: Financial Justice
Early Report on Minimum Wage Votes
Cleveland The ACORN National Board met in Ohio anxiously to hear the report on the prospects for the four state initiatives to raise the minimum wage that ACORN has supported and carried forward in Colorado, Arizona, Missouri, and Ohio. Marty Keith, the chair of Ohio ACORN, Zach Polett, the ACORN National Political Director, and the …
Good Business?
Tucson Almost 200 largely progressive business people were looking up at the dias for the opening session of the Social Venture Network where the topic was “Pioneering a Just Economy,” and I was wondering what in the world I was doing here? Melissa Bradley, the incoming chair of SVN, and a fellow Tides Foundation board …