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 …
Category: Labor Organizing
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 …
Blue Cities and Red States
Washington, D.C.: Nothing like being in the capitol of the United States a week after the Presidential election. In many of the meetings I attended, people seemed to be in some kind of sleep walking trance combined with post traumatic stress syndrome. They were also drowning in colors: red this, blue that; red state people, blue …