New Orleans A group called Food not Bombs has been feeding homeless people in Orlando a couple of times per week in public parks over recent years. The Orlando City Council after complaints from park neighbors passed a restrictive ordinance a couple of years ago requiring a $25 permit for any group to offer public …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Big Hearted Texas Support for India Organizing
Austin Brad Rockwell was a rarity. An environmental lawyer in Austin with a law firm that gave sabbaticals, he reached out and chose to spend two months helping ACORN International’s program in India working with our team in Delhi on organizing the ITO community, green informal workers, and our India FDI Watch Campaign. When he …
A Rough Road for Wal-Mart Women, but a Road
Houston Wal-Mart took a shot at the Supreme Court on a last ditch appeal not on whether or not they discriminated against more than a million women, since everyone knew that was the case, but whether or not the class was too big. Now we are obviously caught between “too big to fail” and “too …