New Orleans Two other guests spoke to the headquarters staff on this recent evening after Ercilia, Dr. David Egilman, and Dr. Fernando Mora Carrasco. David and Fernando had spent the day talking to both the ACORN International staff and the ACORN national staff about a way to align our community organizing work with a …
Category: Health Care
2,000,000+ in SEIU
New Orleans Andy Stern’s convention speech in San Juan as International President was expansive, unbending, and appropriately celebratory. Some of us had been in Pittsburgh when the 1,000,000 member mark was broken, and now the 2,000,000 member mark was smashed as well. Stern in pledging to implement the Justice for All package being presented …
Health NOW!
Santa Fe We welcomed an interesting guest to the Mid-Year Management Meeting (MYM) in Santa Fe this year, Richard Kirsch, the new director of HCAN: Health Care Action NOW! Bright and early, Richard marched us through the paces of a PowerPoint to move us to message as ACORN joined this new effort. People can taste …