New Orleans ACORN leader, Joe Sherman, has been a rock in the rebuilding of the upper Carrollton neighborhood in uptown New Orleans. Flooding from the 17th Street Canal inundated the area along with the Lakeview neighborhood, Hollygrove, and many others on the western side of the city. Many repairs have been made on the …
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Rocky Road Home
New Orleans Coming from the airport in the rain, I was surprised to see the crowd on the office porch and the live TV trucks with their 50 foot high antennas parked in the neutral ground in front of the office. I wondered if I would be able to get into my office because my …
Kodak Lands and Deindustrialization
Toronto Everywhere Judy Duncan, ACORN Canada Head Organizer, and I went we seemed to be hearing about deindustrialization. The epidemic that collapsed the manufacturing sector in the US now seems to have become viral in Canada as well. First, we talked to John Cartwright, head of the Toronto and York Labor Council, who has been …