January 31, 2009 New Orleans In 2006 when the Organizers’ Forum delegation from the US and Canada visited Ankara and Istanbul in Turkey we spent several hours visiting with an organizer and a community organizing project among the Roma (gypsies) across the Bosporus Straits on the Asian side of Istanbul. The community was similar …
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Common Ground Infiltrator
January 31, 2009 New Orleans There was a brief squib on the wire that defied easy explanation. One of the co-founders of Common Ground, an agency that had sprung after Katrina first with a health center on the West Bank and then involved in some recovery work on the East Bank, was revealed to …
Looking for $4.2 Billion
January 29, 2009 New Orleans It would be nice to say to the Right, “Hey, get over it!” The Arkansas legislature failed to get a unanimous resolution of congratulations to President Obama, and throughout the last week the Google alerts have been filled with wildness that says the national community organization, ACORN, is slated …