New Orleans Early on Saturday morning Scott Hagy, the ACORN Services Construction Manager, picked me up in his truck and we went out to kick the dirt around ACORN’s building sites. The big news was on Delery Street in the very northerly corner of what is now the famous Lower 9th Ward. After many months …
Category: Ideas and Issues
On the Personal Side for My Dad
New Orleans I was on the tarmac finally on the last leg back to New Orleans from Atlanta. I managed to get my son on the phone for a minute in the middle of mid-terms to wish him well, and called my folks. My mother answered and was relieved to have me back in-country, and …
Irbid and the Textile Workers
Amman Rich Hall and Shira Qatarneh from the Jordan Solidarity Center allowed me to ride along with them as they went up to Irbid to visit with their local staff member working with the Jordan Textile Workers and assisting in organizing in the QIZ — which is the local handle for the special industrial zone …