Buenos Aires: In Argentina everything is dated before or after the “crisis.” The crisis was the defining economic collapse when the value of the peso went to dirt and all of the bills came due. Banks closed and depositors lost their shirts. Interestingly, the people reacted by organizing and organizing in new and exciting forms. …
Category: International
First Members in New Communities
Lima, Peru: BBC World mentioned this morning that there was record snow in the United States and that more planes had been delayed than at any time since 9/11, but in Lima it was muy caliente under the equatorial sun as we walked through the two communities where ACORN Peru is organizing its first two …
Water from Hell!
New Orleans: We were on vacation. We had too much time! We were riveted to the television set in a way that would not have been possible at any other time. We flipped channels between CNN and BBC over and over, mesmerized and horrified. We bought papers whether we could read them or not, whether they …