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 …
Category: International
Year End — Year Begin Meeting
New Orleans: Every year for a million years — certainly close to 30 years or so — the organizational staff that make up the ACORN family of organizations — ACORN, ACORN International, AHC, SEIU Locals 880 and 100, KABF, KNON, CCI, and a score of others — come together for what we call the YE/YB …
Asian Community Organizers’ Network
New York City: Organizing is often a matter of drawing the lines as quickly as possible — and as straight and true — as you are able between several points – or people – to bring them all together. Recently, I was cementing just that kind of connection where disjointed and skimpy pieces of information somehow …